Author:Henry David Thoreau/Poetry

A

 * Ah, 't is in vain the peaceful din
 * An early unconverted Saint
 * Anacreon's Ode to the Cicada (We pronounce thee happy, cicada) Tr.
 * The Assabet (Up this pleasant stream let's row)
 * At midnight's hour I raised my head
 * The Atlantides (The smothered streams of love, which flow)
 * The Aurora of Guido (The god of day his car rolls up the slopes)
 * Autumnal Sun (see "Nature's Child")

B

 * Better wait
 * The Black Knight (see last fourteen lines of "Independence")
 * The Bluebirds (In the midst of the poplar that stands by our door)
 * Boat Song (Thus, perchance, the Indian hunter)
 * The "Book of Gems" (With cunning plates the polished leaves were decked)
 * The Breeze's Invitation (Come let's roam the breezy pastures)
 * But since we sailed
 * By a strong liking we prevail

C

 * Cliffs (The loudest sound that burdens here the breeze)
 * Conscience (Conscience is instinct bred in the house)
 * The Crow (Thou dusky spirit of the wood)
 * Cupid Wounded (Love once among roses)

D

 * Death cannot come too soon
 * Delay (No generous action can delay)
 * The Departure (In this roadstead I have ridden)
 * The deeds of king and meanest hedger
 * Ding Dong (When the world grows old by the chimney-side)
 * The Dream Valley (Last night, as I lay gazing with shut eyes)

E

 * Each more melodious note I hear
 * Each summer sound
 * The Earth
 * The Echo of the Sabbath Bell Heard in the Woods (Dong, sounds the brass in the east)
 * The evening of the year draws on (see "The Fall of the Leaf")
 * The Evening Wind (The eastern mail comes lumbering in)

F

 * Faith, then ye have (see "Here lies an honest man")
 * The Fall of the Leaf (Thank God who seasons thus the year)
 * Fair Haven (see "Stanzas Written at Walden")
 * Far o'er the bow
 * Farewell (see "Light-hearted, thoughtless, shall I take my way")
 * A finer race and finer fed
 * The Fisher's Boy (My life is like a stroll upon the beach)
 * The Fisher's Son (I know the world where land and water meet)
 * Fog (Thou drifting meadow of the air)
 * Free Love (My love must be as free)
 * The Freshet (A stir is on the Worcester hills)
 * Friendship (I think awhile of Love, and while I think)
 * Friendship (Let such pure hate still underprop)
 * Friendship (Now we are partners in such legal trade)
 * Friendship's Steadfastness (True friendship is so firm a league)
 * The Funeral Bell (One more is gone)

G

 * Godfrey of Boulogne
 * The Good how can we trust?
 * Greater is the depth of sadness
 * Greece (When life contracts into a vulgar span)
 * Greece, who am I that should remember thee (see also "Greece")

H

 * Haze (Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze)
 * Here lies an honest man
 * The Hero (What doth he ask?)
 * His steady sails he never furls
 * How little curious is man

I

 * I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore
 * I fain would stretch me by the highway-side
 * I have rolled near some other spirit's path
 * I hearing get, who had but ears
 * I make ye an offer
 * I mark the summer's swift decline
 * I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind
 * I see the civil sun drying earth's tears
 * I seek the present time
 * I was born upon thy bank, river
 * If from your price ye will not swerve
 * In the busy streets, domains of trade
 * In two years' time 't had thus
 * Independence (My life more civil is and free)
 * Inspiration (If thou wilt but stand by my ear)
 * Inspiration (Whate'er we leave to God, God does)
 * The Inward Morning (Packed in my mind lie all the clothes)
 * It doth expand my privacies
 * It is no dream of mine
 * I've seen ye, sisters, on the mountain-side

L

 * Light-hearted, thoughtless, shall I take my way
 * Lines (Though all the fates should prove unkind)
 * Lines (All things are current found)
 * Love (We two that planets erst had been)
 * Love's Farewell (see "Light-hearted, thoughtless, shall I take my way")
 * Love equals swift and slow

M

 * Man's little acts are grand
 * May Morning (The school-boy loitered on his way to school)
 * Men are by birth equal in this, that given
 * Men dig and dive but cannot my wealth spend
 * Men say they know many things
 * Methinks that by a strict behavior
 * Mission (I've searched my faculties around)
 * Mist (Low-anchored cloud)
 * The Moon (The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray)
 * Mountains (With frontier strength ye stand your ground)
 * My Boots (Anon with gaping fearlessness they quaff)
 * My friends, why should we live?
 * My ground is high
 * My life has been the poem I would have writ
 * My Prayer (Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf)

N

 * Nature (O Nature! I do not aspire)
 * Nature's Child (I am the autumnal sun)
 * Noon (Straightway dissolved)
 * Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head
 * Now chiefly is my natal hour

O

 * Oft, as I turn me on my pillow o'er
 * The Old Marlborough Road (Where they once dug for money)
 * Omnipresence (Who equaleth the coward's haste)
 * On fields o'er which the reaper's hand has passed
 * On Ponkawtasset, since, with such delay
 * On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon (Methinks all things have travelled since you shined)
 * Orphics: I. Smoke II. Haze (see individual poems "Smoke" and "Haze")
 * Our uninquiring corpses lie more low

P

 * The Peal of the Bells (see "Ding Dong")
 * Pilgrims (Have you not seen)
 * Ply the oars! away! away! (see "River Song")
 * The Poet's Delay (In vain I see the morning rise)
 * Poverty (If I am poor)
 * Prayer (Great God! I ask thee for no meaner pelf)

R

 * The Respectable Folks (The respectable folks)
 * Return of Spring (Behold, how Spring appearing)
 * A River Scene (The river swelleth more and more)
 * River Song (Ply the oars! away! away!)
 * Rumors from an Æolian Harp (There is a vale which none hath seen)

S

 * Salmon Brook (Salmon Brook)
 * Sea and land are but his neighbors
 * The Shrike (Hark! hark! from out the thickest fog)
 * Sic Vita (I am a parcel of vain strivings tied)
 * Since that first "away! away!" (see also last stanza of "The Assabet")
 * Smoke (Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird)
 * Smoke in Winter (The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell)
 * Some Tumultuous Little Rill (Some tumultuous little rill)
 * Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion
 * The Soul's Season (see "The Fall of the Leaf")
 * Stanzas (Away! away! away! away!)
 * Stanzas (Nature doth have her dawn each day)
 * Stanzas Written at Walden (When Winter fringes every bough)
 * Strange that so many fickle gods, as fickle as the weather
 * Such near aspects had we
 * Such water do the gods distil
 * The Summer Rain (My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read)
 * Sympathy (Lately, alas! I knew a gentle boy)

T

 * Tell me, ye wise ones, if ye can
 * That Phaeton of our day
 * The Thaw (I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears)
 * Then idle Time ran gadding by
 * Then spend an age in whetting thy desire
 * They who prepare my evening meal below
 * This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome
 * To a Marsh Hawk in Spring (There is health in thy gray wing)
 * To a Stray Fowl (Poor bird! destined to lead thy life)
 * To My Brother (Brother, where dost thou dwell)
 * To the Maiden in the East (Low in the eastern sky)
 * True Kindness (True kindness is a pure divine affinity)
 * Truth, Goodness, Beauty,—those celestial thrins
 * 'T will soon appear if we but look
 * Two years and twenty now have flown

V

 * The Vireo (Upon the lofty elm-tree sprays)

W

 * Wait not till I invite thee, but observe
 * Walden [poem] (True, our converse a stranger is to speech)
 * The waves slowly beat
 * We see the planet fall
 * We should not mind if on our ear there fell
 * The western wind came lumbering in
 * Westward, Ho! (The needles of the pine)
 * "What is it gilds the trees and clouds" (see "The Inward Morning")
 * What's the railroad to me?
 * Where gleaming fields of haze
 * Where I have been
 * Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me
 * Who sleeps by day and walks by night
 * Winter Memories (Within the circuit of this plodding life)
 * A Winter Scene (The rabbit leaps)
 * A Winter Walk (see "Stanzas Written at Walden")
 * The work we choose should be our own

Y

 * Ye do commend me to all virtue ever
 * Yet let us thank the purblind race

Unindexed poems

 * Die and be buried who will


 * Epitaph on the World (Here lies the body of this world) [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]]


 * Fog (Dull water spirit—and Protean god)


 * I'm contented you should stay (no source)
 * Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell


 * Our Country (It is a noble country where we dwell)


 * Pray, to what earth does this sweet cold belong