Author talk:Henry David Thoreau/Poetry

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• Alas, when will this roving head and breast (The Centaur)
• 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)
• Any fool can make a rule From Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1888) p. 335
• As often as a martyr dies

• Between the traveller and the setting sun
• The blossoms on the tree (Delay in Friendship)
• 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

• An early unconverted saint See WOCMR

• Far from the atmosphere that music sounds (Music)
• For though the caves were rabitted
• The Friend "The great friend"
• Friends—
• Friends! that parting tear reserve it

• Gentle river, gentle river (Voyager's Song)

• He knows no change who knows the true
• Here lies the world (On a Good Man)
• Here then an an aged shepherd dwelt See WOCMR

• I am the little Irish boy
• I arose before light
• I do not fear my thoughts will die
• I knew a man by sight
• I love a careless streamlet
• I love to see the man, a long-lived child (Manhood)
• I'm guided in the darkest night From Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1892) p. 223-4.
• I'm not alone
• I'm thankful that my life doth not deceive
• In Adams fall
• In the east fames are won
• In times of yore, 'tis said, the swimming Alder
• I saw a delicate flower had grown up 2 feet high
• Is consigned to the nine
• I walk in nature still alone (Great Friend)
• I've heard my neighbor's pump at night
• I was made erect and lone
• I will obey the strictest law of love

• Life is a summer's day
• Loves invalides are not those of common wars

• Man, man is the Devil From Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1888) p. 107.
• The moon moves up her smooth and sheeny path
• The moon now arises to her absolute rule
• Must we still eat
• My friends, my noble friends, know ye—
• My life is like a stately warrior horse (Life)
• My sincerity doth surpass (To the Comet)

• No earnest work that will expand the frame
• No sound from my forge (Expectation)

• Old meeting-house bell
• On shoulders whirled in some eccentric orbit

• The stately music rises on my ear (The Just Made Perfect)

• Th' ambrosia of the Gods 's a weed on earth
• Therefore a torrent of sadness deep
• This life, O king, of men on earth (Speech of a Saxon Elderman)
• Thou little bud of being, Edith named (To Edith)
• To day I climbed a handsome rounded hill
• Traveller, this is no prison (Epitaph on Pursey)
• The vessel of love, the vessel of state

• Until at length the north winds blow
• Upon the bank at early dawn

• The vessel of love, the vessel of state

• Wait not till slaves pronounce the word
• What sought they thus far
• What time the bittern, solitary bird (Noon)
• 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 the oaks are in gray
• When the toads begin to ring
• When with pale cheek and sunken eye I sang
• Whether we're far withdrawn (Farewell)
• The willows droop (A Winter and Spring Scene)
• With her calm, aspiring eyes (The Virgin)
• Who hears the parson
• Why do the seasons change? and why

• You must not only aim aright