A LIST OF THE POEMS AND BITS OF VERSE SCATTERED AMONG THOREAU'S PROSE
WRITINGS EXCLUSIVE OF THE JOURNAL
* * * * *
A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS
"The respectable folks" PAGE 7
"Ah, 't is in vain the
peaceful
din" 15
"But since we sailed" 16
"Here then an aged shepherd dwelt" 16
"On Ponkawtasset, since we took our way" 16
"Who sleeps by day and walks by night" 41
"An early unconverted Saint" 42
"Low in the eastern sky" (TO THE MAIDEN IN THE EAST) 46
"Dong, sounds the brass in the East" 50
"Greece, who am I that should remember thee" 54
"Some tumultuous little rill" 62
"I make ye an offer" 69
"Conscience is instinct bred in the house" (CONSCIENCE) 75
"Such water do the gods distill" 86
"That Phaeton of our day" 103
"Then spend an age in whetting thy desire" 111
"Though all the fates should prove unkind" 151
"With frontier strength ye stand your ground" (MOUNTAINS) 170
"The western wind came lumbering in" 180
"Then idle Time ran gadding by" 181
"Now chiefly is my natal hour" 182
RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP 184
"Away!
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems
]
[12] ["The first four of these stanzas (unnamed by Thoreau) were
published in the Boston _Commonwealth_ in 1863, under the title of
'The Soul's Season,' the remainder as 'The Fall of the Leaf.' There
can be little doubt that they are parts of one complete poem." (Note
in _Poems of Nature_.)]
[13] [See p. 120.]
[14] ["These stanzas formed part of the original manuscript of the
essay on 'A Winter Walk,' but were excluded by Emerson." (Note in
_Poems of Nature_.)]
[15] ["First printed in full in the Boston _Commonwealth_, October 30,
1863. The last fourteen lines had appeared in _The Dial_ under the
title of 'The Black Knight,' and are so reprinted in the Riverside
Edition." (Note in _Poems of Nature_.)]
[16] [In _The Dial_ this line reads, "Only the promise of my heart."]
[17] ["A copy of this hitherto unpublished poem has been kindly
furnished by Miss A. J. Ward." (Note in _Poems of Nature_.
)]
A LIST OF THE POEMS AND BITS OF VERSE SCATTERED AMONG THOREAU'S PROSE
WRITINGS EXCLUSIVE OF THE JOURNAL
* * * * *
A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS
"The respectable folks" PAGE 7
"Ah, 't is in vain the
peaceful
din" 15
"But since we sailed" 16
"Here then an aged shepherd dwelt" 16
"On Ponkawtasset, since we took our way" 16
"Who sleeps by day and walks by night" 41
"An early unconverted Saint" 42
"Low in the eastern sky" (TO THE MAIDEN IN THE EAST) 46
"Dong, sounds the brass in the East" 50
"Greece, who am I that should remember thee" 54
"Some tumultuous little rill" 62
"I make ye an offer" 69
"Conscience is instinct bred in the house" (CONSCIENCE) 75
"Such water do the gods distill" 86
"That Phaeton of our day" 103
"Then spend an age in whetting thy desire" 111
"Though all the fates should prove unkind" 151
"With frontier strength ye stand your ground" (MOUNTAINS) 170
"The western wind came lumbering in" 180
"Then idle Time ran gadding by" 181
"Now chiefly is my natal hour" 182
RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP 184
"Away!
away! away! away!" 186
"Ply the oars! away! away!" (RIVER SONG, part) 188
"Since that first 'Away! away!'" (RIVER SONG, part) 200
"Low-anchored cloud" (MIST) 201
"Man's little acts are grand" 224
"Our uninquiring corpses lie more low" 227
"The waves slowly beat" 229
"Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze" (HAZE) 229
"Where gleaming fields of haze" 234
TRANSLATIONS FROM ANACREON 240
"Thus, perchance, the Indian hunter" (BOAT SONG) 247
"My life is like a stroll upon the beach" (THE FISHER'S BOY) 255
"This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome" 267
"True kindness is a pure divine affinity" 275
"Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy" (SYMPATHY) 276
THE ATLANTIDES 278
"My love must be as free" (FREE LOVE) 297
"The Good how can we trust?" 298
"Nature doth have her dawn each day" 302
"Let such pure hate still underprop" (FRIENDSHIP) 305
"Men are by birth equal in this, that given" 311
The Inward Morning 313
"My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read" (THE SUMMER RAIN) 320
"My life has been the poem I would have writ" 365
THE POET'S DELAY 366
"I hearing get, who had but ears" 372
"Men dig and dive but cannot my wealth spend" 373
"Salmon Brook" 375
"Oft, as I turn me on my pillow o'er" 384
"I am the autumnal sun" (NATURE'S CHILD) 404
"A finer race and finer fed" 407
"I am a parcel of vain strivings tied" (SIC VITA) 410
"All things are current found" 415
WALDEN
"Men say they know many things" 46
"What's the railroad to me?" 135
"It is no dream of mine" 215
"Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird" (SMOKE) 279
THE MAINE WOODS
"Die and be buried who will" 88
EXCURSIONS
"Within the circuit of this plodding life" (WINTER MEMORIES) 103
