Poems (1847)
Last updated October 31, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson's debut collection of verse, published at the end of 1846 with an 1847 title page, gathers poems he had written over two decades. It includes the Concord Hymn, with its line about the shot heard round the world, as well as Each and All, The Rhodora, The Humble-Bee, Uriel, Merlin and Threnody, his elegy for his young son, Waldo.
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