Chapter 15

Tell me, maiden, dost thou use Tell men what they knew before Test of the poet is knowledge of love Thanks to the morning light That book is good That each should in his house abide That you are fair or wise is vain The April winds are magical The archangel Hope The Asmodean feat is mine The atom displaces all atoms beside The bard and mystic held me for their own The beggar begs by God's command The brave Empedocles, defying fools The brook sings on, but sings in vain The cold gray down upon the quinces lieth The cup of life is not so shallow The days pass over me The debt is paid The gale that wrecked you on the sand The green grass is bowing The heavy blue chain The living Heaven thy prayers respect The lords of life, the lords of life The low December vault in June be lifted high Theme no poet gladly sung The mountain and the squirrel The Muse's hill by Fear is guarded The patient Pan The prosperous and beautiful The rhyme of the poet The rocky nook with hilltops three The rules to men made evident The sea is the road of the bold The sense of the world is short The solid, solid universe The South-wind brings The Sphinx is drowsy The sun athwart the cloud thought it no sin The sun goes down, and with him takes The sun set, but set not his hope The tongue is prone to lose the way The water understands The wings of Time are black and white The word of the Lord by night The yesterday doth never smile Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes There are beggars in Iran and Araby There is in all the sons of men There is no great and no small There is no architect They brought me rubies from the mine They put their finger on their lips They say, through patience, chalk Thine eyes still shined for me, though far Think me not unkind and rude This is he, who, felled by foes This shining moment is an edifice Thou foolish Hafiz! Say, do churls Thou shalt make thy house Though her eyes seek other forms Though loath to grieve Though love repine and reason chafe Thousand minstrels woke within me Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down Thy summer voice, Musketaquit Thy trivial harp will never please To and fro the Genius flies To clothe the fiery thought To transmute crime to wisdom, so to stem Trees in groves True Brahmin, in the morning meadows wet Try the might the Muse affords Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene Two well-assorted travellers use

Unbar the door, since thou the Opener art

Venus, when her son was lost

Was never form and never face We are what we are made; each following day We crossed Champlain to Keeseville with our friends We love the venerable house Well and wisely said the Greek What all the books of ages paint, I have What care I, so they stand the same What central flowing forces, say When all their blooms the meadows flaunt When I was born When success exalts thy lot When the pine tosses its cones When wrath and terror changed Jove's regal port Who gave thee, O Beauty Who knows this or that? 375. Who saw the hid beginnings Who shall tell what did befall Why did all manly gifts in Webster fail? Why fear to die Why lingerest thou, pale violet, to see the dying year Why should I keep holiday Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Winters know Wise and polite,--and if I drew Wisp and meteor nightly falling With beams December planets dart With the key of the secret he marches faster Would you know what joy is hid

Yes, sometimes to the sorrow-stricken You shall not be overbold You shall not love me for what daily spends Your picture smiles as first it smiled

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INDEX OF TITLES

[The titles in small capital letters are those of the principal divisions of the work; those in lower case are of single poems, or the subdivisions of long poems.]

A.H. [Greek: Adakryn nemontai Aiona] Adirondacs, The Alcuin, From Ali Ben Abu Taleb, From Alphonso of Castile Amulet, The Apology, The April Art Artist Astraea

Bacchus Beauty Bell, The Berrying Birds Blight Boéce, Étienne de la Bohemian Hymn, The Borrowing Boston Boston Hymn, read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863 Botanist Brahma

Caritas Casella Celestial Love, The Channing, W.H., Ode inscribed to Character Chartist's Complaint, The Circles Climacteric Compensation Concord Hymn Concord, Ode Sung in the Town Hall, July 4, 1857 Cosmos Culture Cupido

Daemonic Love, The Day's Ration, The Days Destiny Dirge

Each and All Earth, The Earth-Song ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES Ellen, To Ellen, Lines to Enchanter, The Epitaph Eros Eva, To Excelsior Exile, The Experience

Fable Fame Fate Flute, The Forbearance Forerunners Forester Fragments on Nature and Life Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic Gift Freedom Friendship

Garden, The Garden, My Gardener Gifts Give all to Love Good-bye Good Hope Grace Guy

Hafiz Hafiz, From Hamatreya Harp, The Heavens, The Heri, Cras, Hodie Hermione Heroism Holidays Horoscope House, The Humble-Bee, The Hush! Hymn Hymn sung at the Second Church, Boston, at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins

Ibn Jemin, From Illusions Informing Spirit, The In Memoriam Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love Initial Love, The Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War Insight Intellect

J.W., To

Last Farewell, The Letter, A Letters Life Limits Lines by Ellen Louise Tucker Lines to Ellen Love Love and Thought

Maia Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp Manners MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES May-Day Memory Merlin Merlin's Song Merops Miracle, The Mithridates Monadnoc Monadnoc from afar Mountain Grave, A Music Musketaquid My Garden

Nahant Nature Nature in Leasts Nemesis Night in June Northman Nun's Aspiration, The

October Ode, inscribed to W.H. Channing Ode, sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857 Ode to Beauty Omar Khayyam, From Orator

Pan Park, The Past, The Pericles Peter's Field Phi Beta Kappa Poem, From the Philosopher POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD Poet Poet, The Politics Power Prayer Problem, The Promise Prudence

QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS

Rex Rhea, To Rhodora, The Riches River, The Romany Girl, The Rubies

S.H. Saadi Sacrifice Seashore Security September Shah, To the Shakspeare Snow-Storm, The Solution Song of Nature Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan Sonnet of Michel Angelo Buonarotti Sphinx, The Spiritual Laws Summons, The Sunrise Sursum Corda "Suum Cuique"

Terminus Test, The Thine Eyes still Shined Thought Threnody Titmouse, The To-Day To Ellen at the South To Ellen To Eva To J.W. To Rhea To the Shah Transition Translations Two Rivers

Una Unity Uriel

Violet, The Visit, The Voluntaries

Waldeinsamkeit Walden Walk, The Water Waterfall, The Wealth Webster Woodnotes World-Soul, The Worship Written at Rome, 1883 Written in a Volume of Goethe Written in Naples, March, 1883

Xenophanes