Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. 1880. Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry

The imagination wakened brings its own language, and that is always musical.

Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Parnassus

An Anthology of Poetry

Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some 700 complete poems, excerpts and verse quotations show a unique insight into the mind of America’s first Philosopher.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Preface

BOSTON: HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY, 1880
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

I. Nature:  Land — Sea — Sky II. Human Life:  Home — Woman — Love — Friendship — Manners — Beauty III. Intellectual:  Memory — Inspiration — Imagination — Fancy — Music — Art — Moods IV. Contemplative — Moral — Religious:  Man — Virtue — Honor — Time — Change — Fate — Death — Immortality — Hymns — Holydays V. Heroic:  Patriotic — Historic — Political VI. Portraits — Personal — Pictures VII. Narrative Poems and Ballads VIII. Songs IX. Dirges and Pathetic Poems X. Comic and Humorous:  Satirical XI. Poetry of Terror XII. Oracles and Counsels:  Good Counsel — Supreme Hours