The Rhodora

"The Rhodora" is an 1847 poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a response to the question "on being asked whence is the flower". The poem is about the rhodora, a common flowering shrub, and the beauty of this shrub in its natural setting.

External links

The Rhodora full text
The Rhodora public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speeches	"The American Scholar" (1837) "Divinity School Address" (1838) "New England Reformers" (1844)

Poetry	"Concord Hymn" (1836) "Uriel" (1846) "The Rhodora" (1847) "Brahma" (1856) "Boston Hymn" (1863)

Essays	"Nature" (1836) "Self-Reliance" (1841) "Compensation" (1841) "The Over-Soul" (1841) "Circles" (1841) "The Poet" (1844) "Experience" (1844) "Politics" (1844)

Essay collections	Essays: First Series (1841) Essays: Second Series (1844) Representative Men (1850) The Conduct of Life (1860)

Related	The Atlantic "Letter to Martin Van Buren" Ralph Waldo Emerson House The Old Manse Transcendentalism Transcendental Club Concord Museum

People	Rev. William Emerson (father) Edward Waldo Emerson (son) Mary Moody Emerson (aunt) Ezra Ripley (stepfather) Amos Bronson Alcott Thomas Carlyle Nathaniel Hawthorne Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell Henry David Thoreau

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