Poems by Henry David Thoreau - Thoreau online
A selection of poems by Henry D. Thoreau. Many of them were published in The Dial (1840-1844), a transcendentalist magazine.
Henry David Thoreau | The Poetry Foundation
Henry David Thoreau is recognized as an important contributor to the American literary and philosophical movement known as New England transcendentalism. His essays, books, and poems weave together two central themes over the course of his intellectual career: nature and the conduct of life.
8 Henry David Thoreau Poems - Poem Analysis
Henry David Thoreau is one of the most important writers of the transcendentalist movement. He wrote essays, poems, and philosophical works. His best-known work is Walden. His works are known for their close observations of nature, symbolism, and history. He published Poems of Nature in 1895. Biography Quotes. PDF Guide.
About Henry David Thoreau | Academy of American Poets
Henry David Thoreau. 1817 –. 1862. Read poems by this poet. Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817. He was introduced to the countryside at a young age, and this first contact with the natural world sparked a lifelong fascination.
I’m thankful that my life doth not deceive - Poetry Foundation
By Henry David Thoreau. I’m thankful that my life doth not deceive. Itself with a low loftiness, half height, And think it soars when still it dip its way. Beneath the clouds on noiseless pinion. Like the crow or owl, but it doth know. The full extent of all its …
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau - Poems | Academy of American …
Henry David Thoreau. 1817 –. 1862. Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight; Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form.
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied | The Poetry Foundation
By Henry David Thoreau. I am a parcel of vain strivings tied. By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that, their links. Were made so loose and wide, Methinks, For milder weather.
Poetry | Thoreau & Beyond
Many additional poems — including some of Thoreau’s best — can be found interspered throughout Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, of course, in his essays on Love and Friendship, as well as his Natural History of Massachusetts, plus within Edward Emerson’s Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend and Mark Van ...
The Moon - Thoreau online
The Moon. by Henry D. Thoreau. Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide; Mortality below her orb is placed. --Raleigh. The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray. Mounts up the eastern sky, Not doomed to these short nights for aye, But shining steadily.
Free Love - Thoreau online
Free Love. by Henry D. Thoreau. MY love must be as free. As is the eagle's wing, Hovering o'er land and sea. And every thing. I must not dim my eye. In thy saloon, I must not leave my sky.