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The Poets of Transcendentalism
Firm rest the feet below, clear gaze the eyes above, / When Truth, to point the way through Life, assumes the wand of Love.
Life a Temple, ll. 38–39.
Margaret
Fuller

The Poets of Transcendentalism

An Anthology

Edited by George Willis Cooke

This small collection of 186 poems brings together the 42 major and minor authors of the great flowering of American verse.

Bibliographic Record Preface Introduction Author Biography

Contents

BOSTON, NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co., 1903
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

Ralph Waldo Emerson.
1803–1882.
Each and All
The Rhodora
The Problem
The Eternal Pan
Fate
James Russell Lowell.
1819–1891.
The Frankness of Nature
The Poet’s Obedience
To Irene on her Birthday
Wisdom of the Eternal One
Winter
Love Reflected in Nature
The Street
Bibliolatres
Divine Teachers
True Nobleness
Amos Bronson Alcott.
1799–1888.
Man
Approaching God
Matter
Friendship
Excellence
The Seer’s Rations
Dr. Channing
Emerson
Henry David Thoreau.
1817–1862.
Stanzas, ‘Nature doth have her dawn each day
Inspiration
My Prayer
Rumors from an Æolian Harp
Conscience
The Inward Morning
Lines, ‘All things are current found
My Life
Margaret Fuller.
1810–1850.
Life a Temple
Encouragement
Sub Rosa, Crux
Dryad Song
Christopher Pearse Cranch.
1813–1892.
Gnosis
Correspondences
The Ocean
I in Thee, and Thou in Me
Human Helpers
So Far, so Near
William Ellery Channing.
1818–1901.
Thoughts
Content
A Poet’s Hope
Una
To the Poets
Hymn of the Earth
Nature
Primavera, the Breath of Spring
Confessio Amantis
James Freeman Clarke.
1810–1888.
Hymn and Prayer
Frederic Henry Hedge.
1805–1890.
Questionings
John Sullivan Dwight.
1813–1893.
Rest
Work while it is Day
Music
Eliza Thayer Clapp.
1811–1888.
The Future is better than the Past
Hymn to the God of Stars
Charles Timothy Brooks.
1813–1883.
The Great Voices
The Voice of the Pine
Ellen Sturgis Hooper.
1812–1848.
Beauty and Duty
The Straight Road
The Heart’s Cure
The Poet
The Nobly Born
The Goal
Wayfarers
The Chimney-sweep
Hymn of a Spirit shrouded
One about to die
To R. W. E.
The Wood-Fire
To the Ideal
Caroline Sturgis Tappan.
1819–1888.
Art and Artist
Afternoon
Lines, ‘You go to the woods
The Brook
The Hero
Charles Anderson Dana.
1819–1897.
Herzliebste
Via Sacra
Eternity
Ad Arma!
The Bankrupt
George William Curtis.
1824–1892.
Spring Song
Ebb and Flow
Jones Very.
1813–1880.
The Barberry-Bush
The Prayer
The Presence
The Son
The Spirit Land
The Violet
The Idler
The Light from within
Health of Body dependent on the Soul
The Silent
Nature
Theodore Parker.
1810–1860.
The Higher Good
The Way, the Truth, the Life
Samuel Gray Ward.
1817–1907.
The Consolers
The Shield
David Atwood Wasson.
1823–1887.
Ideals
Seen and Unseen
All ’s Well
Love against Love
Royalty
Sidney Henry Morse.
1833–1903.
Two Moods
Open Secret
Sundered
Till Love be Whole
The Way
Waifs
Service
The Victory
John Weiss.
1818–1879.
Blest Spirit of My Life
Saadi’s Thinking
My Two Quests
Method
Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
1823–1911.
The Things I miss
Heirs of Time
A Jar of Rose-Leaves
Ode to a Butterfly
George Shepard Burleigh.
1821–1903.
Dare and Know
The Ideal Wins
Immanuel
Our Birthright
William Henry Furness.
1802–1896.
The Soul
Evening
Samuel Johnson.
1822–1882.
For Divine Strength
Inspiration
Samuel Longfellow.
1819–1892.
Looking unto God
The Church Universal
Eliza Scudder.
1821–1896.
The Love of God
Whom but Thee
Truth
No More Sea
Thanksgiving
Vesper Hymn
The Quest
Helen Hunt Jackson.
1830–1885.
Love’s Fulfilling
Not as I will
Spinning
Hymn: ‘I cannot think but God must know
The Love of God
Edward Rowland Sill.
1841–1887.
Life
The Future
A Prayer
Wiegenlied
Force
Tranquillity
Peace
Julia Ward Howe.
1819–1910.
Stanzas: ‘Of the heaven is generation
Warning
The Price of the Divina Commedia
The House of Rest
Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney.
1824–1904.
Prayer
Waiting Help
I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy Likeness
John Burroughs.
1837–1921.
Waiting
Golden Crown Sparrow of Alaska
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.
1831–1917.
Anathemata
Emerson
John Albee.
1833–1915.
Ars Poetica et Humana
Music and Memory
Remembered Love
Joel Benton.
1832–1911.
The Poet
The Whippoorwill
Weltschmerz
Augusta Cooper Bristol.
1835–1910.
A Summer Morning Hour with Nature
Somewhere
The Old Song and the New
Art-Service
Anna Callender Brackett.
1836–1911.
Beethoven
Four White Lilies
Denial
Comprehension
Francis Ellingwood Abbot.
1836–1903.
Godward
Matins
A Birth-day Prayer
John White Chadwick.
1840–1904.
Nirvana
A Song of Trust
Auld Lang Syne
William Channing Gannett.
1840–1923.
Who wert and art and evermore shalt be
The Highway
The Word of God
Listening for God
Frederick Lucian Hosmer.
1840–1929.
The Thought of God
The Mystery of God