Author:Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

See biography, media, quotes. An American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is most famous for Walden. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

[edit] Works

• The Landlord, (1843)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, (1849) (WOCMR)
• Civil Disobedience, (1849)
• An Excursion to Canada, (1853)
• Slavery in Massachusetts, (1854)
• Walden, (1854)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown, (1860)
• The Succession of Forest Trees, (1860)
• Walking, (1862)
• Autumnal Tints, (1862)
• Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree, (1862)
• Life Without Principle, (1863)
• Night and Moonlight, (1863)
• The Highland Light, (1864)
• Maine Woods (1864)
• A Yankee in Canada (with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers) (1892)
• Autumn (1892)
• The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1895)
• Poems of Nature (1895)
• Thoreau Poems (1920)
• A Winter Walk

[edit] Poetry

• Ah, 't is in vain the peaceful din
• Alas, when will this roving head and breast (The Centaur)
• All things are current found
• All things decay
• Among the signs of autumn I perceive (Tall Ambrosia)
• Among the worst of men that ever lived
• And once again
• And when the sun puts out his lamp (To the Mountains)
• An early unconverted Saint
• Anon with gaping fearlessness they quaff (My Boots)
• Any fool can make a rule
• As often as a martyr dies
• At midnight's Hour I railed my head
• Aurora of Guido - A Fragment
• Away! Away! Away! Away!
• Be sure your fate (The Black Knight)
• Better wait
• Between the traveller and the setting sun
• The blossoms on the tree (Delay in Friendship)
• Brother where dost thou dwell?
• But since we sailed
• By his good genius prompted or the power
• By death's favor (Epitaph of an Engraver)
• Cans't thou love with thy mind
• Carpe Diem "Build not on tomorrow"
• The Chicadee
• Come let's roam the breezy pastures (The Breeze's Invitation)
• Conscience is instinct bred in the house (Conscience)
• Death cannot come too soon
• The deeds of king and meanest hedger
• The Departure "In this roadstead I have ridden"
• Die and be buried who will
• Ding Dong "When the world grows old by the chimney-side"
• Dong, sounds the brass in the east
• Dull water spirit — and Protean god (Fog)
• An early unconverted saint See WOCMR
• Each more melodious note I hear
• Each summer sound
• The Earth
• Epitaph on the World "Here lies the body of this world"
• Faith, then ye have
• Far from the atmosphere that music sounds (Music)
• The Fall of the Leaf "Thank God who seasons thus the year"
• A finer race and finer fed
• The Fisher's Boy "My life is like a stroll upon the beach"
• The Fisher's Son 'I know the world where land and water meet"
• For though the caves were rabitted
• The Friend "The great friend"
• Friends—
• Friends! that parting tear reserve it
• Friendship's Steadfastness "True friendship is so firm a league"
• The Funeral Bell "One more is gone"
• Gentle river, gentle river (Voyager's Song)
• The Good how can we trust?
• Greater is the depth of sadness
• Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf (Prayer)
• Greece, who am I that should remember thee
• But since we sailed See WOCMR
• He knows no change who knows the true
• Here lies an honest man
• Here lies the world (On a Good Man)
• Here then an an aged shepherd dwelt See WOCMR
• His steady sails he never furls
• How little curious is man (Travelling)
• I am a parcel of vain strivings tied (Sic Vita)
• I am bound (I am bound, for a distant shore)
• I am the autumnal sun (Autumnal Sun)
• I am the little Irish boy
• I arose before light
• I do not fear my thoughts will die
• If from your price ye will not swerve
• If with light head erect I sing (Inspiration)
• I have rolled near some other spirits path
• I hearing get, who had but ears,
• I knew a man by sight
• I love a careless streamlet
• I love to see the man, a long-lived child (Manhood)
• I make ye an offer See WOCMR
• I mark the summer's swift decline
• I'm contented you should stay
• I'm guided in the darkest night
• I'm not alone
• I'm thankful that my life doth not deceive
• In Adams fall
• Indeed, Indeed, I cannot tell
• Independence
• In the busy streets, domains of trade
• In the east fames are won
• In the midst of the poplar that stands by our door, (The Bluebirds)
• In this roadstead I have ridden (The Departure)
• In times of yore, 'tis said, the swimming Alder
• In vain I see the morning rise (The Poet's Delay)
• In two years' time 't had thus
• If thou wilt but stand by my ear (Inspiration)
• I sailed up the river with a pleasant wind
• I saw a delicate flower had grown up 2 feet high
• Is consigned to the nine
• I see the Present Time
• I think awhile of Love, and while I think (Friendship)
• It is a noble country where we dwell (Our Country)
• It is no dream of mine
• I walk in nature still alone (Great Friend)
• I've heard my neighbor's pump at night
• I've searched my facilities around (Mission)
• I've seen ye, sisters, on the mountain-side
• I was born upon thy bank river
• I was made erect and lone
• I will obey the strictest law of love
• The Inward Morning "Packed in my mind lie all the clothes"
• Last night as I lay gazing with shut eyes
• Lately, alas! I knew a gentle boy (Sympathy)
• Let such pure hate still underprop (Friendship) ("Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers")
• Life is a summer's day
• Light hearted, careless, shall I take my way (Love's Farewell)
• Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird
• The loudest sound that burdens here the breeze (Cliffs)
• Love equals swift and slow
• Loves invalides are not those of common wars
• Low anchored cloud (Mist)
• Low in the eastern sky
• Man Man is the Devil
• Man's little acts are grand
• Men dig and dive but cannot my wealth spend
• Men say they know many things
• Methinks all things have travelled since you shined (On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon)
• Methinks that by a strict behavior
• Moon "The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray"
• The moon moves up her smooth and sheeny path
• The moon now arises to her absolute rule
• Must we still eat
• My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read (Summer Rain)
• My friends, my noble friends, know ye—
• My friends, why should we live?
• My ground is high
• My life has been the poem I would have writ
• My life is like a stately warrior horse (Life)
• My life more civil is and free (Independence)
• My love must be as free
• My sincerity doth surpass (To the Comet)
• Nature doth have her dawn each day
• The needles of the pine
• No earnest work that will expand the frame
• No generous actions can delay (Delay)
• No sound from my forge (Expectation)
• Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head
• Now we are partners in such legal trade (Friendship)
• O nature I do not aspire (Nature)
• The Old Marlborough Road
• Oft, as I turn me on my pillow o'er
• Old meeting-house bell
• On Fields Oer Which the Reaper's Hand Has Passd
• On Ponkawtasset, since we took our way
• On shoulders whirled in some eccentric orbit
• Our uninquiring corpses lie more low
• Pilgrims
• Ply the oars! away! away!
• Poverty - A Fragment
• Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong
• The respectable folks
• Return of Spring "Behold how spring appearing"
• The river swelleth more and more (A River Scene)
• Rumors from an Aeolian Harp
• Salmon Brook
• The school boy loitered on his way to school (May Morning)
• The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell
• Smoke "Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird"
• Smoke in Winter "The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell,"
• The smothered streams of love, which flow (The Atlantides)
• Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion
• Some tumultuous little rill
• Stanzas
• Strange that so many fickle gods, as fickle as the weather
• The stately music rises on my ear (The Just Made Perfect)
• Such near aspects had we
• Such water do the gods distill
• Tell me ye wise ones if ye can
• Th' ambrosia of the Gods 's a weed on earth
• That Phaeton of our day See WOCMR
• Then spend an age in whetting they desire See WOCMR
• There is health in thy gray wing (To a Marsh Hawk in Spring)
• Therefore a torrent of sadness deep
• The Thaw "I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears"
• They who prepare my evening meal below
• This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome
• This life, O king, of men on earth (Speech of a Saxon Elderman)
• Thou dusky spirit of the wood (The Crow)
• Thou little bud of being, Edith named (To Edith)
• Though all the fates should prove unkind
• Thus, perchance, the Indian hunter
• To day I climbed a handsome rounded hill
• To the Maiden in the East
• To My Brother
• To a Stray Fowl "Poor bird, destined to live they life afar"
• Traveller, this is no prison (Epitaph on Pursey)
• True kindness is a pure divine affinity
• True, our converse a stranger is to speech (Walden)
• Truth—Goodness—Beauty—those celestial thrins
• 'Twill soon appear if we but look
• The vessel of love, the vessel of state
• Until at length the north winds blow
• Upon the bank at early dawn
• Upon the lofty elm tree sprays
• Up this pleasant stream let's row (The Assabet)
• Upon the lofty elm tree sprays (The Vireo)
• The vessel of love, the vessel of state
• The waves slowly beat
• The western wind came lumbering in
• Wait not till I invite thee, but observe
• Wait not till slaves pronounce the word
• Whate'er we leave to God, God does (Inspiration)
• What doth he ask? (The Hero)
• What sought they thus far
• What time the bittern, solitary bird (Noon)
• What's the Railroad to Me?
• We see the planet fall
• We should not mind if on our ear there fell
• We two that planets erst had been (Love)
• When breathless noon hath paused on hill and vale (The Cliffs and Springs)
• When in some cove I lie
• When little hills like lambs did skip (Fair Haven)
• When life contracts into a vulgar span (Greece)
• When the oaks are in gray
• When the toads begin to ring
• When the world grows old by the chimney side (The Peal of the Bells)
• When Winter freezes every bough
• When with pale cheek and sunken eye I sang
• Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me
• Where gleaming fields of haze
• Where I have been
• Whether we're far withdrawn (Farewell)
• The work we choose should be our own,
• The willows droop (A Winter and Spring Scene)
• With her calm, aspiring eyes (The Virgin)
• With cunning plates the polished leaves were decked (The "Book of Gems")
• Who equaleth the coward's haste (Omnipresence)
• Who hears the parson
• Who sleeps by day and walks by night
• Why do the seasons change? and why
• With frontier strength ye stand your ground (Mountains)
• Winter Memories "Within the circuit of this plodding life"
• A Winter Scene "The rabbit leaps"
• Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze (Haze)
• Ye do command me to all virtue ever
• Yet let Thank the purblind race
• You must not only aim aright

[edit] Works about Thoreau

• Henry David Thoreau article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• Octavius Brooks Frothingham, “Thoreau, Henry David,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889.
• “Thoreau, Henry David,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.