Poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson [electronic text]
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- Title
- Poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson [electronic text]
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Publication
- Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- 1904
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"Poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD1982.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
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Notes
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THRENODY. Page 148. This "Ode of Tears" was not all written at one time. Little Waldo, the first-born of his parents, died in January, 1842, and the first part of the poem is the expression of his father's great sorrow. The latter portion, beginning
The deep Heart answered, 'Weepest thou?'
was not written until Time and Thought had brought their healing.A month after the child's death, his father, in writing to his childless friend, Carlyle, said,
"My son, a perfect little boy
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Page 151, note 1. Journal.
"The chrysalis which he brought in with care and tenderness and gave to his mother to keep is still alive, and he, most beautiful of the children of men, is not here."
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Page 158, note 1. The idea of Deity rushing into distribution is treated at length in the first part of the Timæus of Plato.