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

poet Henry David Thoreau
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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

I am the Autumnal Sun

Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature
-- not his Father but his Mother stirs
within him, and he becomes immortal with her
immortality. From time to time she claims
kindredship with us, and some globule
from her veins steals up into our own.

I am the autumnal sun,
With autumn gales my race is run;

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