PagineEmerson led the Transcendentalist movement, urging self-reliance and a direct relationship with nature. Best known for essays, he also wrote poems, including the “Concord Hymn” with its line about “the shot heard round the world”.
Public-domain poems, free to read and print.
Yes. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 3 of them here or as a flip book.
Nature (1836), Poems (1847), May-Day and Other Pieces (1867).