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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), Boston Hymn . (search)
Boston Hymn. by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the sea-side, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of Kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor? My angel — his name is Freedom-- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing. Lo!
I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, As the sculptor uncovers his statue, When he has wrought his best. I show Columbia, of the rocks Which dip their foot in the seas, And soar to the air-borne flocks Of clouds, and the boreal fleece. I will divide my goods, Call in the wretch and slave: None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have. I will have never a noble, No lineage counted great: Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Sha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emerson , Ralph Waldo , 1803 -1882 (search)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Author; leader of the transcendental school of New England; born in Boston, May 25, 1803; graduated at Harvard in 1821; taught school five years, and in 1826 was licensed to preach by the Middlesex (Unitarian) Association.
In the winter of 1833-34, after returning from Europe, he began the career of a lecturer and essayist.
Marrying in 1835, he fixed his
Ralph Waldo Emerson residence at Concord, Mass., and was a contributor to, and finally editor of, The, he began the career of a lecturer and essayist.
Marrying in 1835, he fixed his
Ralph Waldo Emerson residence at Concord, Mass., and was a contributor to, and finally editor of, The dial, a quarterly magazine, and organ of the New England transcendentalists.
He lived the quiet life of a literary man and philosopher, with the reputation, for more than forty years, of a profound thinker and elegant writer.
He published essays, poems, and lectures, and died in Concord, Mass., April 27, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Free thought. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall of fame, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ripley , George 1802 -1880 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thoreau , Henry David 1817 -1862 (search)
Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
Author; born in Concord, Mass., July 12, 1817; graduated at Harvard College in 1837; became
Henry David Thoreau. a lecturer and writer, and was strongly opposed to slavery; was an intimate friend of Bronson Alcot and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
His publications include Resistance to Civil government: a week on the Concord and Merrimac rivers; Walden, or life in the woods; The Maine woods; Cape Cod; Letters to various persons: a Yankee in Canada, etc. He died in Concord, Mass., May 6, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Transcendentalism, (search)
Transcendentalism,
A term derived from the Latin transcendere, to go beyond, and applied to that doctrine of the school of philosophy in New England which was founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and A. Bronson Alcott (q. v.).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 5 : (search)