(12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862 / Concord, Massachusetts)

poet Henry David Thoreau
#128 on top 500 poets

Poems of Henry David Thoreau

1. All Things Are Current Found 4/12/2010
2. Away! Away! Away! Away! 4/26/2012
3. Conscience 1/3/2003
4. Epitaph On The World 1/3/2003
5. Friendship 1/3/2003
6. Great God, I Ask for no Meaner Pelf 4/26/2012
7. I am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied 1/3/2003
8. I am the Autumnal Sun 1/3/2003
9. I Knew A Man By Sight 1/3/2003
10. I was Made Erect and Lone 4/26/2012
11. Indeed, Indeed I Cannot Tell 1/3/2003
12. Inspiration 1/3/2003
13. Let such pure hate still underprop 1/3/2003
14. Light-Winged Smoke 4/12/2010
15. Like A Soul 4/12/2010
16. Low-Anchored Cloud 1/3/2003
17. Men Say They Know Many Things 4/12/2010
18. Mist 1/3/2003
19. My Life Has Been The Poem 4/12/2010
20. Nature 4/12/2010

The Summer Rain

My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read,
'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large
Down in the meadow, where is richer feed,
And will not mind to hit their proper targe.

Plutarch was good, and so was Homer too,
Our Shakespeare's life were rich to live again,
What Plutarch read, that was not good nor true,
Nor Shakespeare's books, unless his books were men.

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