THE ATHENAEUMMay-Day, and Other PiecesRalph Waldo Emerson
Poetry
May-Day, and Other Pieces
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textEmerson’s second book of poems, published in 1867, when he was sixty-three. Here are Days and Brahma, the Boston Hymn he read on the day the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, and Voluntaries, for the Black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts: “So nigh is grandeur to our dust”. It ends with Terminus, which begins “It is time to be old, / To take in sail”.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 1 hr 10 min
- Where to find it
- Walden Pond
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #15963. In the public domain in the United States.