Author:Henry David Thoreau/Poetry

Poetry

Indexed poems

Table of contents

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Ah, 't is in vain the peaceful din
• An early unconverted Saint
• Anacreon's Ode to the Cicada (We pronounce thee happy, cicada) Tr.
• The Assabet (Up this pleasant stream let's row)
• At midnight's hour I raised my head
• The Atlantides (The smothered streams of love, which flow)
• The Aurora of Guido (The god of day his car rolls up the slopes)
• Autumnal Sun (see "Nature's Child")

B

• Better wait
• The Black Knight (see last fourteen lines of "Independence")
• The Bluebirds (In the midst of the poplar that stands by our door)
• Boat Song (Thus, perchance, the Indian hunter)
• The "Book of Gems" (With cunning plates the polished leaves were decked)
• The Breeze's Invitation (Come let's roam the breezy pastures)
• But since we sailed
• By a strong liking we prevail

C

• Cliffs (The loudest sound that burdens here the breeze)
• Conscience (Conscience is instinct bred in the house)
• The Crow (Thou dusky spirit of the wood)
• Cupid Wounded (Love once among roses)

D

• Death cannot come too soon
• Delay (No generous action can delay)
• The Departure (In this roadstead I have ridden)
• The deeds of king and meanest hedger
• Ding Dong (When the world grows old by the chimney-side)
• The Dream Valley (Last night, as I lay gazing with shut eyes)

E

• Each more melodious note I hear
• Each summer sound
• The Earth
• The Echo of the Sabbath Bell Heard in the Woods (Dong, sounds the brass in the east)
• The evening of the year draws on (see "The Fall of the Leaf")
• The Evening Wind (The eastern mail comes lumbering in)

F

• Faith, then ye have (see "Here lies an honest man")
• The Fall of the Leaf (Thank God who seasons thus the year)
• Fair Haven (see "Stanzas Written at Walden")
• Far o'er the bow
• Farewell (see "Light-hearted, thoughtless, shall I take my way")
• 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)
• Fog (Thou drifting meadow of the air)
• Free Love (My love must be as free)
• The Freshet (A stir is on the Worcester hills)
• Friendship (I think awhile of Love, and while I think)
• Friendship (Let such pure hate still underprop)
• Friendship (Now we are partners in such legal trade)
• Friendship's Steadfastness (True friendship is so firm a league)
• The Funeral Bell (One more is gone)

G

• Godfrey of Boulogne
• The Good how can we trust?
• Greater is the depth of sadness
• Greece (When life contracts into a vulgar span)
• Greece, who am I that should remember thee (see also "Greece")

H

• Haze (Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze)
• Here lies an honest man
• The Hero (What doth he ask?)
• His steady sails he never furls
• How little curious is man

I

• I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore
• I fain would stretch me by the highway-side
• I have rolled near some other spirit's path
• I hearing get, who had but ears
• I make ye an offer
• I mark the summer's swift decline
• I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind
• I see the civil sun drying earth's tears
• I seek the present time
• I was born upon thy bank, river
• If from your price ye will not swerve
• In the busy streets, domains of trade
• In two years' time 't had thus
• Independence (My life more civil is and free)
• Inspiration (If thou wilt but stand by my ear)
• Inspiration (Whate'er we leave to God, God does)
• The Inward Morning (Packed in my mind lie all the clothes)
• It doth expand my privacies
• It is no dream of mine
• I've seen ye, sisters, on the mountain-side

L

• Light-hearted, thoughtless, shall I take my way
• Lines (Though all the fates should prove unkind)
• Lines (All things are current found)
• Love (We two that planets erst had been)
• Love's Farewell (see "Light-hearted, thoughtless, shall I take my way")
• Love equals swift and slow

M

• Man's little acts are grand
• May Morning (The school-boy loitered on his way to school)
• Men are by birth equal in this, that given
• Men dig and dive but cannot my wealth spend
• Men say they know many things
• Methinks that by a strict behavior
• Mission (I've searched my faculties around)
• Mist (Low-anchored cloud)
• The Moon (The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray)
• Mountains (With frontier strength ye stand your ground)
• My Boots (Anon with gaping fearlessness they quaff)
• My friends, why should we live?
• My ground is high
• My life has been the poem I would have writ
• My Prayer (Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf)

N

• Nature (O Nature! I do not aspire)
• Nature's Child (I am the autumnal sun)
• Noon (Straightway dissolved)
• Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head
• Now chiefly is my natal hour

O

• Oft, as I turn me on my pillow o'er
• The Old Marlborough Road (Where they once dug for money)
• Omnipresence (Who equaleth the coward's haste)
• On fields o'er which the reaper's hand has passed
• On Ponkawtasset, since, with such delay
• On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon (Methinks all things have travelled since you shined)
• Orphics: I. Smoke II. Haze (see individual poems "Smoke" and "Haze")
• Our uninquiring corpses lie more low

P

• The Peal of the Bells (see "Ding Dong")
• Pilgrims (Have you not seen)
• Ply the oars! away! away! (see "River Song")
• The Poet's Delay (In vain I see the morning rise)
• Poverty (If I am poor)
• Prayer (Great God! I ask thee for no meaner pelf)

R

• The Respectable Folks (The respectable folks)
• Return of Spring (Behold, how Spring appearing)
• A River Scene (The river swelleth more and more)
• River Song (Ply the oars! away! away!)
• Rumors from an Æolian Harp (There is a vale which none hath seen)

S

• Salmon Brook (Salmon Brook)
• Sea and land are but his neighbors
• The Shrike (Hark! hark! from out the thickest fog)
• Sic Vita (I am a parcel of vain strivings tied)
• Since that first "away! away!" (see also last stanza of "The Assabet")
• Smoke (Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird)
• Smoke in Winter (The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell)
• Some Tumultuous Little Rill (Some tumultuous little rill)
• Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion
• The Soul's Season (see "The Fall of the Leaf")
• Stanzas (Away! away! away! away!)
• Stanzas (Nature doth have her dawn each day)
• Stanzas Written at Walden (When Winter fringes every bough)
• Strange that so many fickle gods, as fickle as the weather
• Such near aspects had we
• Such water do the gods distil
• The Summer Rain (My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read)
• Sympathy (Lately, alas! I knew a gentle boy)

T

• Tell me, ye wise ones, if ye can
• That Phaeton of our day
• The Thaw (I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears)
• Then idle Time ran gadding by
• Then spend an age in whetting thy desire
• They who prepare my evening meal below
• This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome
• To a Marsh Hawk in Spring (There is health in thy gray wing)
• To a Stray Fowl (Poor bird! destined to lead thy life)
• To My Brother (Brother, where dost thou dwell)
• To the Maiden in the East (Low in the eastern sky)
• True Kindness (True kindness is a pure divine affinity)
• Truth, Goodness, Beauty,—those celestial thrins
• 'T will soon appear if we but look
• Two years and twenty now have flown

V

• The Vireo (Upon the lofty elm-tree sprays)

W

• Wait not till I invite thee, but observe
• Walden [poem] (True, our converse a stranger is to speech)
• The waves slowly beat
• We see the planet fall
• We should not mind if on our ear there fell
• The western wind came lumbering in
• Westward, Ho! (The needles of the pine)
• "What is it gilds the trees and clouds" (see "The Inward Morning")
• What's the railroad to me?
• Where gleaming fields of haze
• Where I have been
• Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me
• Who sleeps by day and walks by night
• Winter Memories (Within the circuit of this plodding life)
• A Winter Scene (The rabbit leaps)
• A Winter Walk (see "Stanzas Written at Walden")
• The work we choose should be our own

Y

• Ye do commend me to all virtue ever
• Yet let us thank the purblind race

Unindexed poems

• Die and be buried who will

• Epitaph on the World (Here lies the body of this world)

• Fog (Dull water spirit—and Protean god)

• I'm contented you should stay (no source)
• Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell

• Our Country (It is a noble country where we dwell)

• Pray, to what earth does this sweet cold belong