May-Day, and Other Pieces

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May-Day and Other Pieces by Ralph Waldo Emerson has a contents list that includes May-Day, The Adirondacs, Brahma, Nemesis, Fate, Freedom and Boston Hymn. The contents list also names Experience, Compensation, Politics, Heroism, Friendship and Spiritual Laws, along with Quatrains and Translations.

Under the heading MAY-DAY, the lines speak of "Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring", who with sudden passion languishing makes all things softly smile. A set of lines describes knee-deep snows that choked all the ways and Frost as the eldest mason that had piled, with wicked ingenuity, swift cathedrals in the wild. The heading TRANSLATIONS is followed by SONNET OF MICHEL ANGELO BUONAROTI, which says "Never did sculptor’s dream unfold A form which marble doth not hold."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.