Tagged Notable: poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

born 25 MAY 1803 in Boston, Suffolk Co, MA, died 27 APR 1882 in Concord, Middlesex Co, MA, about age 79.
Unitarian Rector, transcendentalist, poet

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Name	Birth	Death	Spouses	Parents	Birthplace	Deathplace
Louisa May Alcott	29 NOV 1832	6 MAR 1888		Amos Bronson Alcott + Abigail May	PA, Montgomery Co, Germantown	MA, Suffolk Co, Roxbury
Katharine Lee Bates	12 AUG 1859	28 MAR 1929		William Bates + Cornelia Frances Lee	MA, Barnstable Co, Falmouth	MA, Norfolk Co, Wellesley
Stephen Vincent Benét	22 JUL 1898	13 MAR 1943		James Walker Benét + Frances Rose	PA, Northampton Co, Bethlehem	NY, New York Co, New York City
Geoffrey Chaucer	abt 1343	25 OCT 1400	Philippa De Roet		England, Middlesex, London
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	21 OCT 1772	25 JUL 1834	Sara Fricker		England, Devon, Ottery St Mary	England, Middlesex, Highgate
Emily Dickinson	10 DEC 1830	15 MAY 1886		Edward Dickinson + Emily Norcross	MA, Hampshire Co, Amherst	MA, Hampshire Co, Amherst
Anne Dudley	20 Mar 1612	16 Sep 1672	Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Bradstreet	Thomas Dudley + Dorothy Yorke	England, Northamptonshire	MA, Essex Co, Andover
Ralph Waldo Emerson	25 MAY 1803	27 APR 1882	Lydia Jackson	William Emerson + Ruth Haskins	MA, Suffolk Co, Boston	MA, Middlesex Co, Concord
Robert Lee Frost	26 MAR 1874	29 JAN 1963	Elinor Miriam White	William Prescott Frost + Isabel Moodie	CA, San Francisco Co, San Francisco	MA, Suffolk Co, Boston
Sidney Lanier	3 FEB 1842	7 SEP 1881	Mary Day	Robert Sampson Lanier + Mary Jane Anderson	GA, Bibb Co, Macon	NC, Polk Co, Lynn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	27 FEB 1807	25 MAR 1882	Frances Elizabeth Appleton	Stephen Longfellow + Zilpah Wadsworth	ME, Cumberland Co, Portland	MA, Middlesex Co, Cambridge
James Russell Lowell	22 FEB 1819	12 AUG 1891	Anna Maria White	Charles Russell Lowell Sr. + Harriet Brackett Spence	MA, Middlesex Co, Cambridge	MA, Middlesex Co, Cambridge
Clement Clarke Moore	15 JUL 1779	10 JUL 1863	Catherine Elizabeth Taylor	Benjamin Moore + Charity Clarke	NY, New York Co, New York City	RI, Newport Co, Newport
Ogden Nash	19 AUG 1902	19 MAY 1971		Edmund Strudwick Nash + Mathilde Chenault	NY, Westchester Co, Rye	MD, Baltimore City
Edgar Allan Poe	19 JAN 1809	7 OCT 1849	Virginia Clemm	David Poe + Elizabeth Arnold	MA, Suffolk Co, Boston	MD, Baltimore City
James Whitcomb Riley	7 OCT 1849	22 JUL 1916		Reuben Alexander Riley + Elizabeth Marine	IN, Hancock Co, Greenfield	IN, Marion Co, Indianapolis
Edwin Arlington Robinson	22 DEC 1869	6 APR 1935		Edward Robinson + Mary Elizabeth Palmer	ME, Lincoln Co, Alna	NY, New York Co, New York City
William Shakespeare	abt 23 APR 1564	23 APR 1616	Anne Hathaway	John Shakespeare + Mary Arden	England, Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon	England, Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon
Percy Bysshe Shelley	4 AUG 1792	8 JUL 1822	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Timothy Shelley + Elizabeth Pilford	England, Sussex, Field Place	Italy, Sardinia
Henry David Thoreau	12 JUL 1817	6 MAY 1862		John Thoreau + Cynthia Dunbar	MA, Middlesex Co, Concord	MA, Middlesex Co, Concord
Walt Whitman	31 MAY 1819	26 MAR 1892		Walter Whitman + Louisa Van Velsor	NY, Suffolk Co, Huntington, Whitman House Historic Site	NJ, Camden Co, Camden
John Greenleaf Whittier	17 DEC 1807	7 SEP 1892		John Whittier + Abigail Hussey	MA, Essex Co, Haverhill	NH, Rockingham Co, Hampton Falls