A LIST OF THE POEMS AND BITS OF VERSE SCATTERED AMONG THOREAU'S PROSE WRITINGS EXCLUSIVE OF THE JOURNAL

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A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACKRIVERS
"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 Æolian Harp184
"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 Anacreon240
"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 Atlantides278
"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 Morning313
"My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read" (The SummerRain)320
"My life has been the poem I would have writ"365
The Poet's Delay366
"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
"We pronounce thee happy, Cicada" (from Anacreon)108
"His steady sails he never furls"109
Return of Spring (from Anacreon)109
"Each summer sound"112
"Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion"112
"Upon the lofty elm tree sprays" (The Vireo)112
"Thou dusky spirit of the wood" (The Crow)113
"I see the civil sun drying earth's tears" (The Thaw, part)120
"The river swelleth more and more" (A River Scene)120
"The needles of the pine"133
"With frontier strength ye stand your ground" (Mountains)133
"Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head"144
"The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell" (Smokein Winter)165
"When Winter fringes every bough" (Stanzas written atWalden)176
The Old Marlborough Road214
"In two years' time 't had thus"303

INDEX

Achilles, The Youth of, translation, [385].

Acre, an, as long measure, [60].

Acton (Mass.), [136].

Æschylus, The Prometheus Bound of, translation, [337]-[375].