[7] This and the following are fragments of Pindar found in ancient authors.
[8] Eighteen lines of this poem appear in Week, pp. 181, 182, 351, 372.
[9] "Suggested by the print of Guido's 'Aurora' sent by Mrs. Carlyle as a wedding gift to Mrs. Emerson." (Note in Poems of Nature.)
[10] Five stanzas of this poem appear in Week, pp. 46, 47.
[11] The last four lines appear in Week, p. 54.
[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."