Walden; or, Life in the Woods

The Maine Woods

ESSAYS

• Aulus Persius Flaccus
• The Service
• Natural History of Massachusetts
• A Walk to Wachusett
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Dark Ages
• A Winter Walk
• The Landlord
• Paradise (To Be) Regained
• Homer. Ossian. Chaucer.
• Herald of Freedom
• Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum
• Thomas Carlyle and His Works
• Civil Disobedience
• Walking
• A Yankee in Canada
• Love
• Chastity & Sensuality
• Slavery in Massachusetts
• Life without Principle
• Autumnal Tints
• A Plea for Captain John Brown
• Martyrdom of John Brown
• The Last Days of John Brown
• The Succession of Forest Trees
• Wild Apples
• Huckleberries

POEMS

• In days of yore, tis said, the swimming alder
• Fair Haven ("When little hills like lambs did skip")
• Voyagers Song
• Life is a summer's day
• I love a careless streamlet
• Pens to mend, and hands to guide
• Each summer sound
• Friendship ("I think awhile of Love, and while I think")
• When breathless noon hath paused on hill and vale
• The Bluebirds
• May Morning
• Walden
• Truth—Goodness—Beauty—those celestial thrins
• Strange that so many fickle gods, as fickle as the weather
• In the busy streets, domains of trade
• I knew a man by sight
• Cliffs
• My Boots
• Noon
• Fair Haven ("When Winter fringes every bough")
• The Thaw
• Last night as I lay gazing with shut eyes,521
• Love
• The deeds of king and meanest hedger
• 'T will soon appear if we but look
• The Evening Wind
• The Peal of the Bells
• The Shrike
• Sympathy
• The "Book of Gems"
• The Assabet
• The Breeze's Invitation
• Stanzas
• Loves Farewell
• Each more melodious note I hear
• The Fisher's Son
• Friendship ("Let such pure hate still underprop")
• The Freshet
• The Poet's Delay
• The Summer Rain
• Guido's Aurora
• I've heard my neighbor's pump at night
• Who sleeps by day and walks by night
• When with pale cheek and sunken eye I sang
• I arose before light
• I'm guided in the darkest night
• Friends—
• When in some cove I lie
• Who hears the parson
• Sic Vita
• Wait not till I invite thee, but observe
• Friendship ("Now we are partners in such legal trade")
• On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon
• They who prepare my evening meal below
• My ground is high
• If from your price ye will not swerve
• Death cannot come too soon
• The Mountains in the Horizon
• The needles of the pine
• The Echo of the Sabbath Bell—
• Low in the eastern sky
• My life has been the poem I would have writ
• To the Mountains
• Greater is the depth of sadness
• Where I have been
• Better wait
• Independence
• Cock-crowing
• Inspiration ("Whate'er we leave to God, God does")
• The Soul's Season
• The Fall of the Leaf
• Delay
• Inspiration ("If thou wilt but stand by my ear"),564
• Ive searched my faculties around
• Who equallest the coward's haste
• The Vireo
• The coward ever sings no song
• Only the slave knows of the slave
• Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf
• The Inward Morning
• Within the circuit of this plodding life
• To Edith
• Delay in Friendship
• Ah, 'tis in vain the peaceful din
• Between the traveller and the setting sun
• Have ye no work for a man to do—
• I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind
• I was made erect and lone
• I'm not alone
• Our Country
• Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong
• True kindness is a pure divine affinity
• Until at length the north winds blow
• Wait not till slaves pronounce the word
• The Funeral Bell
• Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion
• Thou dusky spirit of the wood
• Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head
• Nature
• Godfrey of Boulogne
• The Rabbit leaps
• I am the Autumnal sun
• Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me
• I was born upon thy bank river
• Salmon Brook
• The moon now rises to her absolute rule
• My friends, why should we live?
• I mark the summer's swift decline
• My love must be as free
• The Moon
• Rumors From an Aeolian Harp
• On shoulders whirled in some eccentric orbit
• Far oer The bow
• Methinks that by a strict behavior
• I have rolled near some other spirits path
• Fog
• How little curious is man
• To the Comet
• Haze
• Smoke
• To a Stray Fowl
• The Departure
• Brother where dost thou dwell?
• All things are current found
• On fields oer which the reaper's hand has passed
• Epitaph on an Engraver
• Epitaph on Pursy
• Ep on a Good Man
• Epitaph
• Ep on the World
• The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell
• On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way
• To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
• Great Friend
• The offer
• Morning
• The Friend
• Yet let us Thank the purblind race
• Ye do command me to all virtue ever
• Ive seen ye, sisters, on the mountain-side
• I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore
• The Hero
• At midnight's hour I raised my head
• I seek the Present Time
• Tell me ye wise ones if ye can
• Behold these flowers—
• My friends, my noble friends, know ye—
• The Earth
• But now "no war nor battle's sound"
• Such water do the gods distill
• Die and be buried who will
• I have seen some frozenfaced connecticut
• Such near aspects had we
• Travelling
• The Atlantides
• Conscience is instinct bred in the house
• That Phaeton of our day
• Then spend an age in whetting thy desire
• We see the planet fall
• We should not mind if on our ear there fell
• Men say they know many things
• Away! away! away! away!
• In the East fames are won
• The good how can we trust?
• Greece
• Poverty
• The respectable folks
• Farewell
• For though the eaves were rabitted
• You Boston folks & Roxbury people
• I will obey the strictest law of love
• Why toll the bell today—
• And once again
• The Old Marlborough Road
• Old meeting-house bell
• It is a real place
• Among the worst of men that ever lived
• What's the rail-road to me?
• Tall Ambrosia
• 'Tis very fit the ambrosia of the gods
• I saw a delicate flower had grown up 2 feet high
• To day I climbed a handsome rounded hill
• I am the little Irish boy
• In Adams fall
• Life
• The moon moves up her smooth and sheeny path
• I'm thankful that my life doth not deceive
• Manhood
• Music
• The Just Made Perfect
• I do not fear my thoughts will die
• I'm contented you should stay
• Man Man is the Devil
• You must not only aim aright
• He knows no change who knows the true
• When the toads begin to ring
• The chicadee
• 'Twas 30 years ago
• Forever in my dream & in my morning thought
• Except, returning, by the Marlboro
• The Rosa Sanguinea
• Any fool can make a rule
• All things decay

Chronology
Note on the Texts
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines

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