Share this poet:
Henry David Thoreau
|
 |
|
Henry David Thoreau Poems
- Friendship I think awhile of Love, and while I think, Love ...
- The Moon Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide; ...
- Conscience Conscience is instinct bred in the house, ...
- Inspiration Whate'er we leave to God, God does, And blesses...
- Indeed, Indeed I Cannot Tell Indeed indeed, I cannot tell, ...
- The Summer Rain My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, ...
- Mist Low-anchored cloud, Newfoundland air, Fountain head ...
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day ... more »
Click here to add this poet to your My Favorite Poets.
Quotations
more quotations »-
''The steadfast shores never once turned aside for us, but still trended as they were made; why then should we always turn aside for them?''
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry Dav...
-
''There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.''
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry Dav...
-
''No tree is so wedded to the water, and harmonizes so well with still streams.''
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry Dav...
-
''The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,—the soldiery and the priesthood.''
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "A Yankee in Canada" (1853), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p....
-
At a tavern hereabouts the hostler greeted our horse as an old acquaintance, though he did not remember the driver.... Every man to his trade. I am not acquainted with a single horse in the world, not...
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Chesuncook" (1858) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David T...
Friendship
I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world,
Sole meat and sweetest drink,
And close connecting link
Tween heaven and earth.
I only know it is, not how or why,
My greatest happiness;
However hard I try,
Not if I were to die,
Can I explain.
I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
But when the time arrives,
Then Love is more lovely
Than anything to me,
And so I'm dumb.
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,
But only thinks and does;
Though surely out 'twill leak
Without the help of...
Trees are busy having sex with other trees for a fair part of the year. They cross-polinate all the time when they bloom. Were us better humans who might bang 10-20 of the opposite sex a year, Trees can do it with as many brethren as the wind and bees and birds can reach.
To think they are combined by roots? LOL, NO, trees are are far more advanced and have sex with 100's of their kind in a day.
yes I could have made a poem of this as well
Your creations are really good! I invite you to read my poems..
That's a perfect masterpiece. Kudos! Reach me on vito_ash@yahoo.com Cheers!