The thoughts of Thoreau

Selections. 1987

The Edwin Way Teale library of nature classics

Political writings

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.

Consciousness and culture : Emerson and Thoreau reviewed

Consciousness & culture

Emerson, Thoreau, and the double consciousness -- Transcendental antics -- The problem of Emerson -- Representing America -- Emerson as journalist -- Emerson at Harvard -- Holmes's Emerson -- Emerson's French connection -- Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Polupholoisboios Thalassa -- Society and solitude -- "God himself culminates in the present moment" : thoughts on Thoreau's faith -- "In wildness is the preservation of the world" : the natural history of Henry David Thoreau -- Writing and reading New Englandly.

The Oxford book of short poems

'Fowls in the frith' -- 'Lord, Thou Clèpedest me' -- 'When I see on Rood' -- 'Why have you no ruth?' -- Roundel ('Now welcome, summer') from The Parliament of Fowls -- Unto Adam, His Own Scrivèyn -- Roundel ('Since I from Love escapèd am') from Merciless Beauty -- 'I shall say what inordinate love is' -- 'Onmes gentes plaudite!' -- 'Blessed Mary' -- 'Peace maketh plenty' -- 'Hail, Queen of Heaven' -- 'I have been a foster' -- 'Western wind' -- 'Though ye suppose' -- 'Madam, withouten many words' -- 'Who hath heard' -- 'The enemy of life' -- 'Sighs are my food' -- 'Lux, my fair falcon' -- 'Throughout the world' -- The Spouse to the Younglings -- 'Thou sleepest fast' -- To an Old Gentlewoman that Painted Her Face -- 'The lowest trees have tops' -- Epigram ('Were I a king') -- To His Son -- 'What is our life?' -- 'Even such is time' -- 'Sleep, baby mine, Desire' -- 'Like those sick folks' -- 'Whenas man's life' -- Bathsabe's Song ('Hot sun, cool fire') from David and Bethsabe -- Bridal Song ('Now, Sleep, bind fast') from The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn -- 'Thyrsis, sleepest thou?' -- 'A sparrow-hawk proud' -- 'Thule' -- 'My love in her attire' -- 'Since first I saw your face' -- 'Love me not' -- 'Sweet, let me go!' -- 'He that hath no mistress' -- 'Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire' -- To His Wife, for Striking Her Dog -- Song ('O mistress mine') from Twelfth Night -- Song ('When daffodils begin to peer') from The Winter's Tale -- song ('Jog on, jog on') from The Winter's Tale -- Song ('Full fathom five') from The Tempest -- Song ('The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I') from The Tempest -- Song ('Where the bee sucks') from The Tempest -- A Remembrance of My Friend Mr. Thomas Morley -- 'Happy were he' -- 'Happy were he' -- De Puero Balbutiente -- 'Fair summer droops' -- 'When thou must home' -- 'Never weather-beaten sail' 'Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air' -- 'Thus I resolve' -- 'Sleep, angry beauty' -- Think'st thou to seduce me then' -- Song ('In a maiden-time professed') from The Witch -- Melancholy Conceit -- Song ('Care-charming sleep') from The Tragedy of Valentinian --

Discontents in Devon -- Dreams -- Impossibilities, to His Friend -- Upon Himself -- The Coming of Good Luck -- The Silken Snake -- To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon -- Upon Her Feet -- His Prayer to Ben Jonson -- To Fortune -- Lovers, How They Come and Part -- Upon Julia's Clothes -- Kisses Loathsome -- To His Book -- His Desire -- No Coming to God without Christ -- Of Common Devotion -- On Zacchaeus -- On Change of Weathers-- Sic Vita -- Sonnet ("Go, thou that vainly') -- Song ('We'll, placed in Love's triumphant chariot high') from The Humorous Lovers -- Love's Epitaph -- Sin -- Church Music -- Church Lock and Key -- Trinity Sunday -- Bitter-Sweet -- A Wreath -- Lips and Eyes -- A Lady's Prayer to Cupid -- Song to the Masquers ('Why do you dwell so long in clouds') from The Triumph of Peace -- Fie on Love -- On a Young Man and an Old Man -- On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snow -- Occasioned by Seeing a Walk of Bay Trees -- In Praise of Fidelia -- In Obitum Ben. Jons. -- 'Come from thy palace' from The Conceited Pedlar -- A Song ('Music, thou queen of souls') -- 'From witty men and mad' -- Song ('The lark now leaves his watery nest') -- Song ('Where did you borrow that last sigh') from The Lost Lady -- To One Married to an Old Man -- To Chloris, Upon a Favour Received -- Nymph's Song ('Let us use it whilst we may') from Il Pastor Fido -- Song ('O'er the smooth enamelled green') from Arcades -- To My Nephew, J.B. -- On the Miracle of Multiplied Loaves -- To the Infant Martyrs -- On the Miracle of Loaves -- On the Blessed Virgin's Bashfulness -- On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody -- On Himself, Upon Hearing What Was His Sentence -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- Seeing her Dancing -- Preface to the Progress of Learning -- One Desiring me to Read, but Slept It Out, Wakening -- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars -- Song ('In mine own monument I lie') -- The Dream -- 'The proud Egyptian queen' -- Invocation of Silence -- The Eclipse -- Soul and Body -- Of the Theme of Love -- Song ('Distil not poison in mine ears') -- Song of the Shepherd Boy from The Pilgrim's Progress -- Upon the Snail -- Song ("'Tis true our life is but a long dis-ease") -- Mercury's Song ('Fair Iris I love') from Amphitryon -- Momus' Song to Mars ('Thy sword within the scabbard keep') from The Secular Masque -- Chorus to the Gods ('all, all of a piece throughout') from The Secular Masque -- Meditation 8 -- Christian Ethics -- Nudus Redibo -- On Dorinda -- Ever Present -- The Old Man's Complaint -- A Thought on Human Life.

Song ('Kind lovers, love on') from Calisto -- To --- ('Let those with cost') -- To My More than Meritorious Wife -- Grecian Kindness -- Song ('Leave this gaudy gilded stage') -- A Rodomontade on His Cruel Mistress -- A Catch ('If all be true') -- The Choice -- To Her Lover's Complaint -- Song ('Ladies, though to your conquering eyes') from The comical revenge -- On Myself -- A Song ('The nymph in vain') -- To His False Mistress -- Phillis's Resolution -- Les Estreines -- Adriani Morientis ad Animam Suam -- The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus -- Democritus and Heraclitus -- A Letter to the Honourable Lady, Miss Margaret Cavendish-Holles-Harley -- The Insatiable Priest -- 'Impatient with desire' -- Cloe -- Shall I Repine? -- Song ('See, see, she wakes') -- Song ('Pious Selinda') -- Lesbia -- Song ('False though she be') -- Fancy -- Trim's Song: The Fair Kitchen-Maid from The Funeral -- 'If it be true' -- Jealousy -- Song ('Can love be controlled by advice?') from The Beggar's Opera -- Song ('Before the barn-door crowing') from The Beggar's Opera -- Song('Think of dress in every light') from Achilles -- Written on a Window -- Modesty -- On Dullness -- On a Lady Who p-ssed at the Tragedy of Cato -- Upon a Girl of Seven Years Old -- A Hymn, Written in Windsor Forest -- Inscriptio -- Epigram ('When other ladies to the shades go down') -- To Mr. C, St. James's Place, London, October 22nd -- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I Gave to His Royal Highness -- On the Benefactions in the Late Frost, 1740 -- The Lady's Resolve -- The Monument -- On the Setting Up Mr Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey -- Upon an Ingenious Friend, Over-Vain -- Song ('Man's a poor deluded bubble') -- Ad Coelum -- On the Death of Squire Christopher, a Remarkably Fat Sportsman -- Lines Written on a Window at The Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow -- Tophet -- Ode: Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 -- Sonnet ('When Phoebe formed a wanton smile') -- 'O Memory, thou fond deceiver' from The Captivity -- A Comparison -- A Moral Tetrastich: from the Persian -- 'If wishing for the mystic joys of love' -- My Birthday -- 'The Angel that presided' -- Infant Joy -- Infant Sorrow -- The Clod and the Pebble -- The Sick Rose -- Eternity -- 'Mock on, mock on' -- 'an old maid early' -- The Question Answered -- 'Great things are done' -- To the Accuser Who Is the God of this World -- Grace at Kirkudbright -- 'Twa bonny lads' -- On a Dog of Lord Eglinton's -- Parental Recollections -- 'Says Tweed to Till' -- 'Oh, England' -- 'As I walked by my self' -- 'I saw a peacock' -- 'How many miles to Babylon?' -- 'My mother said'.

'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' -- 'My heart leaps up' -- To a Child: Written in Her Album -- 'Look no thou' -- 'Youth! thou wear'st to manhood now' -- A Sunset -- Time, Real and Imaginary: An Allegory -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua -- Phantom -- On Imitation -- The Soldier's Wife: Dactylics -- 'Had we two met' -- Dirce -- Plays -- 'Ireland never was contented' -- 'Death stands above me' -- Venetian Air -- An Argument: To Any Phillis or Chloe -- Song ('When the heart's feeling') -- To Miss ---('With woman's form') -- To --- --- ('When I loved you') -- Beneath the Cypress Shade -- 'So we'll go no more a-roving' -- 'I would to Heaven' -- 'Remember thee! remember thee! -- Answer to ---'s Professions of Affection -- 'They say that Hope is happiness' -- A song ('Widow bird sate mourning') -- The Waning Moon -- Lines to a Reviewer -- To --- ('Music, when soft voices die') -- Field Path -- Lines Written on a Very Boisterous Day in may, 1844 -- Solitude -- Fragment ('Language has not the power') -- Birds' Nests -- 'This Living hand' -- Song ('Strew not earth') from The Second Brother -- Letters -- Days -- Character -- Quatrain: Poet -- Water -- Limits -- The Best -- All's Well -- 'From sorrow sorrow yet is born' -- The Eagle -- A Dedication -- 'I stood on a tower in the wet' -- 'Somebody being a nobody' -- Frater Ave Atque Vale -- Home Thoughts from the Sea -- Meeting at Night -- Parting at Morning -- Among the Rocks from James Lee's Wife -- 'When I vexed you' from Ferishtah's Fancies -- To Edward FitzGerald -- Appearances -- Bad Dreams -- 'Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird' -- 'Each more melodious note I hear' -- On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon -- 'For though the eaves were rabbeted' -- 'They made me erect and lone' -- Fall, leaves, fall -- Darkness -- 'To spend uncounted years of pain' -- Sixty-Eighth Birthday -- Monody -- Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century -- In the Pauper's Turnip-Field -- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? -- Sometimes With One I Love -- Reconciliation -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- The Last Invocation -- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats -- Old War-Dreams -- A Clear Midnight -- To the Pending Year -- Destiny -- 'Below the surface-stream' -- Heraclitus -- A Mill -- The Revelation -- The Spirit's Epochs -- Constancy Rewarded -- Magna Est Veritas -- Aspecta Medusa -- Memory -- 'I like a look of agony' -- 'I'm Nobody!' -- 'They say that time assuages' -- 'It dropped so low' -- 'I stepped from plank to plank' -- 'The stimulus beyond the grave' -- 'We miss a kinsman more' -- 'It sounded as if the streets were running' -- 'Drowning is not so pitiful' -- 'My life closed twice before its close' -- What Would I Give? -- The Last Wish -- The Power of Interval -- 'I Look Into My Glass' -- A Thunderstorm in Town -- The Peace-Offering -- The Pink Frock -- On Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic) -- The Nettles -- The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House -- The Lodging-House Fuchsias.

Heaven-Haven: A Nun takes the Veil -- Pied Beauty -- Peace -- 'How looks the night?' -- 'Repeat that, repeat' -- 'Not of all my eyes see' -- 'She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes' -- The Rainbow -- Triolet ('When first we met') -- April 1885 -- 'I am the Way' -- The Rainy Summer -- Maternity -- 'I am a hunchback' -- On a Wife -- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes -- Symphony in Yellow -- At Lord's -- Heaven and Hell -- The End of It -- Eight o'Clock -- 'The night is freezing fast' -- 'The fairies break their dances' -- Revolution -- 'Stars, I have seen them fall' -- 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry' -- 'Half-way, for one commandment broken' -- The Nurse's Lament -- 'We never said farewell' -- 'I saw a stable' -- Miniature -- 'Look, you have cast out Love!' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Lisped') -- 'There is a tide' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Kidnapped') -- A Dead Statesman from Epitaphs of War -- All Things Can Tempt Me -- Paudeen -- The Cold Heaven -- A Coat -- A Thought from Propertius -- Death -- Spilt Milk -- The Choice -- Consolation -- The Great Day -- Maquillage -- At The Cavour -- Isolation -- Venice -- Epigram ('Because I am idolatrous') -- Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam -- Outcast -- Beside the Bed -- An Old Story -- Exit -- The Early Morning -- Discovery -- The False Heart -- 'In the desert' -- 'A god in wrath' -- 'A man said' -- On a Island -- Dread -- I Am the Poet Davies, William -- The Villain -- D is for Dog -- All in June -- The Bells of Heaven -- 'Reason has moons' -- Sidera Cadentia: On the Death of Queen Victoria -- Arrogance -- The Spotted Flycatcher -- The Owl -- Crazed -- 'Sir, say no more' -- Elegy in a Country Churchyard -- Ecclesiates -- In Neglect -- A Patch of Old Snow -- The Cow in Apple-Time -- The Line-Gang -- Dust of Snow -- Fireflies in the Garden -- The Armful -- Were I in Trouble -- A Mood Apart -- 'She had a name' -- Cock-Crow -- Thaw -- Tall Nettles -- 'By the ford' -- Cool Tombs -- The Leaden-Eyed -- What the Moon Saw -- Factory Windows Are Always Broken -- Anecdote of the Jar -- The Death of a Soldier -- Men Made Out of Words -- The Hounds -- A Glass of Beer -- The Embankment (The Fantasia of a Fallen Gentleman on a Cold, Bitter Night) -- Conversion -- A Sort of a Song -- The Hard Listener -- No Coward's Song -- Gift to a Jade -- Soul's Liberty -- Interior -- Let No Charitable Hope -- Cold-Blooded Creatures -- Piano -- I Am Like a Rose -- Glory -- What Would You Fight For? -- To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned -- Intimates -- In Teesdale -- A Dead Mole -- Ba Cottage -- The Garden: En robe de parade. Samain -- The Lake Isle -- Childhood -- All Souls' Night -- 'Blighters' -- Base Details -- The General -- Everyone Sang -- 'In me, past, present, future meet' -- Ave Caesar -- Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind -- Bells of Grey Crystal -- Poetry -- A Face -- I May, I Might, I Must -- A Jellyfish -- Cousin Nancy.

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster -- After War -- On the Night -- The Escape -- Moments -- Never May the Fruit Be Plucked -- To a Young Poet -- The True Encounter -- One of the Principal Causes of War -- Arms and the Boy -- Be Frugal -- 'Buffalo Bill's' -- 'may my heart always' -- 'no time ago' -- 'Me up at does' -- Good Appetite -- Flying Crooked -- At First Sight -- On Dwelling -- The Beach -- Cat-Goddesses -- In Her Only Way -- She Is No Liar -- In Perspective -- Departure -- Black Tambourine -- Pitcher -- Fishing Boats in Martigues -- No Mean City -- Postscript to a Pettiness -- The Murderer -- The Lads of the Village -- Love Me! -- Lady 'Rogue' Singleton -- Where Are the War Poets? -- For a Lamb -- She and I -- The Compassionate Fool -- Forgive Me, Sire -- Shepherdess -- The Temptations of Saint Anthony -- The Adversary -- Trinity Place -- Leave Them Alone -- Old Triton Time -- Gnome -- Death of King George V -- Remorse -- Let It Go -- Snow -- The Ear -- Night Club -- Precursors -- Figure of Eight -- Gare du Midi -- Epitaph on a Tyrant -- 'Base words are uttered' 'Behold the manly mesomorph' -- At the Party -- August1968 -- The Bed -- Old Florist -- Dolor -- Night Crow -- Wish for a Young Wife -- Words -- War-Time -- The Lovers -- The Stone Gentleman -- The Double Autumn -- Things to Come -- Entreaty -- Stars and Planets -- Casabiance -- In Innocence -- 'I had gone broke' -- Interview with Doctor Drink -- During a Bombardment by V-Weapons -- Memorial Poem: N.S. 1888-1949 -- The Hittites -- The Wind in the Tree -- 'The village coddled in the valley' -- Epitaph for the Poet -- 'Not in the poet' -- Ire -- 'On no work of words' -- Twenty-Four Years -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- A War -- Well Water -- Fox -- He Resigns -- KingDavid Dances -- Weather Ear -- Invasion Summer -- Money -- Easter -- Portrait -- Families -- Plea -- Ending -- A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter -- Lady Ralegh's Lament -- American Primitive -- Faith and Works.

Iambic Feet Considered as Honorable Scars -- The Monuments of Hiroshima -- Development -- An Old Picture -- A Negro Cemetery Next to a White One -- The Death of God -- Casting -- O Sheriffs -- King Lot's Envoys -- Epistemology -- Parable -- Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning -- Mind -- The Proof -- Avarice -- Home Is So Sad -- Water -- Days -- As Bad as a Mile -- Memories of Verdun -- I Know a Man -- Answers -- A Renewal -- In a Parlor Containing a Table -- When the War Is Over -- To My Daughter -- Nude Descending a Staircase -- Last Child: for Daniel -- Cat and Mouse -- Thistles -- Full Moon and Little Frieda -- Water -- Praying -- Frog Autumn -- Barren Woman -- Riddle -- Upon Shaving Off One's Beard -- A Birthday Poem: for Rachel -- Sous-Entendu -- The Demolition -- Mother of the Groom -- Tractatus: for Aidan Higgins.