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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Title: Poems
Household Edition
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Release Date: July 7, 2004 [EBook #12843]
Language: English
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POEMS
BY
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
HOUSEHOLD EDITION
1867, 1876, 1883, 1895, 1904 AND 1911
PREFACE
In Mr. Cabot's prefatory note to the Riverside Edition of the Poems, published the year after Mr. Emerson's death, he said:--
"This volume contains nearly all the pieces included in the POEMS and MAY-DAY of former editions. In 1876, Mr. Emerson published a selection from his Poems, adding six new ones and omitting many[1]. Of those omitted, several are now restored, in accordance with the expressed wishes of many readers and lovers of them. Also some pieces never before published are here given in an Appendix; on various grounds. Some of them appear to have had Mr. Emerson's approval, but to have been withheld because they were unfinished. These it seemed best not to suppress, now that they can never receive their completion. Others, mostly of an early date, remained unpublished, doubtless because of their personal and private nature