INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS: ## WALDEN, AND ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE WALKING A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN ## WILD APPLES ## A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS BIOGRAPHY and EXCURSIONS ## CAPE COD ## THE MAINE WOODS ## EXCURSIONS AND POEMS ## FAMILIAR LETTERS ## JOURNAL ## CANOEING IN THE WILDERNESS TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES WALDEN and ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by Henry David Thoreau CONTENTS WALDEN Economy Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Reading Sounds Solitude Visitors The Bean-Field The Village The Ponds Baker Farm Higher Laws Brute Neighbors House-Warming Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors Winter Animals The Pond in Winter Spring Conclusion ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Wild Apples. By Henry David Thoreau CONTENTS THE HISTORY OF THE APPLE-TREE. THE WILD APPLE. THE CRAB. HOW THE WILD APPLE GROWS. THE FRUIT, AND ITS FLAVOR. THEIR BEAUTY. THE NAMING OF THEM. THE LAST GLEANING. THE "FROZEN-THAWED" APPLE. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS By Henry D. Thoreau CONTENTS CONCORD RIVER. SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY C A P E C O D By Henry D. Thoreau Illustrated By Clifton Johnson 1908 CONTENTS Introduction I The Shipwreck II Stage-coach Views III The Plains Of Nauset IV The Beach V The Wellfleet Oysterman VI The Beach Again VII Across the Cape VIII The Highland Light IX The Sea and the Desert X Provincetown ILLUSTRATIONS The Clam-Digger (Photogravure) Cohasset�The little cove at Whitehead promontory An old windmill A street in Sandwich The old Higgins tavern at Orleans A Nauset lane Nauset Bay A scarecrow Millennium Grove camp- meeting grounds A Cape Cod citizen Wreckage under the sand-bluff Herring River at Wellfleet A characteristic gable with many windows A Wellfleet oysterman Wellfleet Hunting for a leak Truro�Starting on a voyage Unloading the day's catch A Truro footpath Truro meeting-house on the hill A herd of cows Pond Village Dragging a dory up on the beach An old wrecker at home The Highland Light Towing along shore A cranberry meadow The sand dunes drifting in upon the trees The white breakers on the Atlantic side In Provincetown harbor Provincetown�A bit of the village from the wharf The day of rest A Provincetown fishing-vessel THE MAINE WOODS By Henry D. Thoreau CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY NOTE ix KTAADN 3 CHESUNCOOK 93 THE ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH 174 APPENDIX I. TREES 329 II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS 330 III. LIST OF PLANTS 335 IV. LIST OF BIRDS 347 V. QUADRUPEDS 349 VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION 350 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS 351 INDEX 359 ILLUSTRATIONS SNOWBERRY, Carbon photograph (page 227) Frontispiece MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO, Colored plate MAINE WILDERNESS 88 PINE TREE, BOAR MOUNTAIN 134 SQUAW MOUNTAIN, MOOSEHEAD LAKE 184 MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO 194 MOUNT KINEO CLIFF 298 EXCURSIONS AND POEMS By Henry D. Thoreau CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY NOTE xi EXCURSIONS A YANKEE IN CANADA I. CONCORD TO MONTREAL 3 II. QUEBEC AND MONTMORENCI 20 III. ST. ANNE 40 IV. THE WALLS OF QUEBEC 69 V. THE SCENERY OF QUEBEC; AND THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE 85 NATURAL HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS 103 A WALK TO WACHUSETT 133 THE LANDLORD 153 A WINTER WALK 163 THE SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES 184 WALKING 205 AUTUMNAL TINTS 249 WILD APPLES 290 NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT 323 vi TRANSLATIONS THE PROMETHEUS BOUND OF �SCHYLUS 337 TRANSLATIONS FROM PINDAR 375 POEMS NATURE 395 INSPIRATION 396 THE AURORA OF GUIDO 399 TO THE MAIDEN IN THE EAST 400 TO MY BROTHER 403 GREECE 404 THE FUNERAL BELL 405 THE MOON 406 THE FALL OF THE LEAF 407 THE THAW 409 A WINTER SCENE 410 TO A STRAY FOWL 411 POVERTY 412 PILGRIMS 413 THE DEPARTURE 414 INDEPENDENCE 415 DING DONG 417 OMNIPRESENCE 417 INSPIRATION (QUATRAIN) 418 vii MISSION 418 DELAY 418 PRAYER 418 A LIST OF THE POEMS AND BITS OF VERSE SCATTERED AMONG THOREAU'S PROSE WRITINGS EXCLUSIVE OF THE JOURNAL 420 INDEX 423 ix ILLUSTRATIONS APPLE BLOSSOMS, Carbon photograph (page 294) Frontispiece WILD APPLE TREE, Colored plate Plate MONTREAL FROM MOUNT ROYAL 98 MOUNT WACHUSETT FROM THE WAYLAND HILLS 134 THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD 214 FALLEN LEAVES 270 WILD APPLE TREE 300 FAMILIAR LETTERS By Henry David Thoreau CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I YEARS OF DISCIPLINE SKETCH OF THOREAU'S LIFE FROM BIRTH TO TWENTY YEARS 3 LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER JOHN AND SISTER HELEN 11 EARLY FRIENDSHIP AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH EMERSON AND HIS FAMILY 34 STATEN ISLAND AND NEW YORK LETTERS TO THE THOREAUS AND EMERSONS 68 II THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACHIEVEMENT CORRESPONDENCE WITH C. LANE, J. E. CABOT, EMERSON, AND BLAKE 120 III FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS THE SHIPWRECK OF MARGARET FULLER 183 AN ESSAY ON LOVE AND CHASTITY 198 vi MORAL EPISTLES TO HARRISON BLAKE OF WORCESTER 209 ACQUAINTANCE AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH DANIEL RICKETSON OF NEW BEDFORD 237 EXCURSIONS TO CAPE COD, NEW BEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY 254 EXCURSIONS TO MONADNOCK AND MINNESOTA 364 LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH 395 APPENDIX: LETTERS TO ISAAC HECKER AND CALVIN H. GREENE 403 GENERAL INDEX TO THOREAU'S WORKS 417 vii ILLUSTRATIONS SABBATIA Carbon photograph (page 264) Frontispiece THOREAU'S BOAT-LANDING, CONCORD RIVER Colored plate HENRY D. THOREAU, FROM THE RICKETSON MEDALLION (page 263) 1 CONCORD BATTLE-GROUND 24 WALDEN WOODS 122 THE HOSMER HOUSE 154 THOREAU'S BOAT-LANDING, CONCORD RIVER 236 FROM THE SUMMIT OF MONADNOCK 370 JOURNAL By Henry David Thoreau CONTENTS INTRODUCTION xix CHAPTER I. 1837 (�t. 20) Opening of the Journal-Quotations from Goethe-Ducks at Goose Pond-The Arrowhead-With and Against the Stream-Discipline-Sunrise-Harmony-The World from a Hilltop-Hoar Frost-Measure-Thorns-Jack Frost-Druids- Immortality Post-The Saxons-Crystals-Revolutions-Heroes-The Interesting Facts in History. 3 CHAPTER II. 1838 (�t. 20-21) The Saxons-Hoar Frost-Zeno, the Stoic-Small Talk-Old Books-Greece- Goethe-Homer-A Sunday Scene-What to Do-Composition-Scraps from a Lecture on Society-The Indian Axe-Friendship-Conversation-The Bluebirds-Journey to Maine-May Morning-Walden-Cliffs-Heroism-Divine Service-The Sabbath Bell-Holy War-The Loss of a Tooth-Deformity-Crickets-Sphere Music-Alma Natura-Compensation-My Boots-Speculation-Byron-Fair Haven-Scraps from an Essay on Sound and Silence-Anacreon's Ode to the Cicada-Anacreontics. 25 CHAPTER III. 1839 (�t. 21-22) The Thaw-The Dream Valley-Love-The Evening Wind-The Peal of the Bells- The Shrike-Morning-The Teamster-Fat Pine for Spearing-Terra Firma in Society-The Kingdoms of the Earth-The Form of Strength-My Attic- Sympathy-Annursnack-The Assabet-The Breeze's Invitation-The Week on the Concord and Merrimack-The Walk to the White Mountains-The Wise Rest- �schylus-Growth-Despondency-Linnæus-Bravery-Noon-Scraps xi from a Chapter on Bravery-Friendship-Crickets. 71 CHAPTER IV. 1840 (�t. 22-23) The Fisher's Son-Friends-Poetry-A Tame Life-�schylus-Truth-Duty-Beauty lives by Rhymes-Fishes-Muskrats-The Freshet-Important Events- Ornithology-Inward Poverty-Wild Ducks-The World as a Theatre for Action- Rain-Farewell, Etiquette!-War-The Beginning of the Voyage on the Concord and Merrimack-The Boat-End of the Journal of 546 Pages-Reflections-A Sonnet to Profane Swearing-Down the Concord-The Landscape through a Tumbler-Likeness and Difference-A Drum in the Night-The Inspired Body- Dullness-The Yankee Answer-Greek Philosophers-Rhythm and Harmony- Evening-Paradox-Sailing-A Stately March-Effort the Prerogative of Virtue-The True Poem-Sunrise-A Muster-The Great Ball-Fishing and Sporting-The Golden Mean-Grecian History-The Eye-True Art-Necessity- Dress-Bravery. 110 CHAPTER V. 1841 (�t. 23-24) Routine-Stillness-Seriousness cutting Capers-Wealth is Power-A Dream- Suspicion-Resistance-Rough Usage-Trust in God-Journalizing-The Snow on the Pitch Pines-A Team coming out of the Woods-The Tracks of a Fox- Chasing a Fox-End of the Journal of 396 Pages-Repetition-Weight- Sincerity-The Etiquette of Keeping One's Seat-The Human Voice-Swiss Singers-Costume-The Value of the Recess in a Public Entertainment- Assisting Nature-Prophecy-The Geniality of Cold-Recognition of Greatness-Victory and Defeat-The Lover's Court-The Measure of Time-My Journal-The Industriousness of Vice-Overpraising-Silence-True Modesty- The Helper and the Helped-A Poor Farm-Bronchitis-A Good Book-The Leisure of Society and Nature-The Grandeur of the Storm-Music-Friends-The xii Care of the Body-The Best Medicine-Life-Diversion and Amusement- Composition-The Sound of a Horn-Boarding-Thoroughfares of Vice-Reproof- An Interpretation of Emerson's "Sphinx"-Homeliness in Books-Aubrey-The Loneliness of our Life-Seriousness-Magnanimity-Moral Reflections in a Work on Agriculture-Tea-Kettle and Cow-Bell-Plowing-Eclipsing Napoleon's Career-The True Reformer-Seeing-Friendship's Steadfastness-The Gods side with no Man-A Profane Expression-The Silence of the Woods-The Civilization of the Woods-The Oppression of the House-Shoulders- Approaching a Great Nature-The Use of a Cane-Wachusett-Navigation-The Pine-Westward Ho!-The Echo of the Sabbath Bell heard in the Woods-Books- The Laws of Menu-A Vermonter-The Moon through a Telescope-Immemorial Custom-An Unchangeable Morning Light-The Book of the Hindoos-History and Biography-The Form of a Mountain-Art and Nature-The Strains of a Flute- Earnestness-Afternoon-Various Sounds of the Crickets-The Work of Genius- The Idea of Man in the Hindoo Scripture-The Hindoo's Conception of Creation-Taste and Poetry-The Austerity of the Hindoos-The Only Obligation-Seines in the River-Moonlight the Best Restorer of Antiquity- A Poem to be called "Concord"-A Boat floating amid Reflections-Poetry- Directions for setting out Peach Trees and Grape-Vines-Experience at the Harvard Library-The English Poets-Saxon Poetry-Character-The Inward Morning-Music and Character-The Form of the Wind-Ancient Scotch Poetry- My Redeeming Qualities-The Smoke from an Invisible Farmhouse-Latent Eloquence-Ghosts-Sacred Forests-Thoughts of a Life at Walden-The Rich Man-The Trade of Life-True Greatness-Chaucer-Snowflakes-Books of Natural History. 173 CHAPTER VI. 1842 (�t. 24-25) Good Courage-The Church the Hospital for Men's Souls-Chaucer-Popped Corn-The Literary Style of the Laboring xiii Man-Sir Walter Raleigh- Calmness-The Perfume of the Earth-Unhealthiness of Morality-Music from a Music-Box-Raleigh's Faults-Man's Puny Fences-The Death of Friends- Chaucer the Poet of Gardens-Character and Genius-The History of Music- Chaucer's Way of Speaking of God-My Life-Dying a Transient Phenomenon- The Memory of Departed Friends-The Game of Love-A New Day-The Eye- Originality of Nature-Raleigh-The Most Attractive Sentences-Law and the Right-An Old Schoolmate-Carlyle's Writing-The Tracks of the Indian-The Stars and Man-Friendship-The Roominess of Nature-The Exuberance of Plain Speech-Action and Reflection-Common Sense in Very Old Books-Thoughts like Mountains-Insufficiency of Wisdom without Love-I am Time and the World-My Errand to Mankind-Two Little Hawks and a Great One-Flow in Books-Nature's Leniency toward the Vicious-Intercourse-A Fish Hawk- Poetry-Lydgate's "Story of Thebes"-Humor-Man's Destiny-The Economy of Nature. 308 CHAPTER VII. 1845-1846 (�t. 27-29) The Beginning of the Life at Walden-A House in the Catskills-The Vital Facts of Life-Relics of the Indians-Auxiliaries and Enemies of the Bean- Field-Therien, the Canadian Woodchopper-A Visit from Railroad Men-Life of Primitive Man-Wild Mice-The Written and the Spoken Language-The Interest and Importance of the Classics-The Fragrance of an Apple-The Race of Man-The Mansions of the Air-Echo-"The Crescent and the Cross"- Carnac-The Heroic Books-Screech Owls-Bullfrogs-Nature and Art-Childhood Memories of Walden Pond-Truth-John Field, a Shiftless Irishman, and his Family-A Hard and Emphatic Life-Language-Plastering the House-Primitive Houses-The Cost of a House-The Romans and Nature-Jehovah and Jupiter- Some Greek Myths-Difficulty of Getting a Living and Keeping out of Debt- The Fox as an Imperfect Man-Reading suggested by Hallam's History of Literature-The Necessaries of Life-A xiv Dog Lost-Therien and the Chickadees-The Evening Robin-The Earth as a Garden-A Flock of Geese. 361 CHAPTER VIII. 1845-1847 (�t. 27-30) The Hero-At Midnight's Hour-Wordsworth-Dying Young-The Present Time- Exaggeration-Carlyle's Discovery that he was not a Jackass-Longevity- Life and Death of Hugh Quoil, a Waterloo Soldier-Quoil's Deserted House- Old Clothes-Former Inhabitants of the Walden Woods-The Loon on Walden Pond-Ducks and Geese-The Pack of Hounds-An Unsuccessful Village-Concord Games-Animal Neighbors-Carlyle's Use of the Printer's Art-Northern Slavery-Brister and Zilpha-Making Bread-Emerson and Alcott-A Rabbit-A Town Officer. 403 CHAPTER IX. 1837-1847 (�t. 20-30) Friends-The Loading and Launching of the Boat-Gracefulness-On the Merrimack-The Era of the Indian-Fate of the Indian-Criticism's Apology- Life-Suspicion-The Purple Finch-Gower's Poetry-Light-Indian Implements- Success in Proportion to Average Ability-Kindness-Fog-The Attitude of Quarles and his Contemporaries towards Nature-The Mystery of Life-Three- o'clock-in-the-Morning Courage-A Recent Book-Museums-Some Old English Poets-Our Kindred-Friendship-Skating after a Fox-To a Marsh Hawk in the Spring-The Gardener-A Fisherman's Account at the Store-Finny Contemporaries-Marlowe-Thaw-Modern Nymphs-Living by Self-Defense-The Survival of the Birds-The Slaughter-House-The Tragedy of the Muskrat- Carlyle not to be Studied-The Subject of the Lecture-The Character of our Life-The Sovereignty of the Mind-Coöperation. 438 xvi ILLUSTRATIONS WHITE VIOLETS, Carbon photograph (page 304) Frontispiece VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL Colored plate Colored plate HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN 1854, FROM THE ROWSE CRAYON IN THE CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 1 FROST CRYSTALS AT THE MOUTH OF A HOLE IN A BANK 22 VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL 84 TREES REFLECTED IN THE RIVER 140 WINTER LANDSCAPE FROM FAIRHAVEN HILL 296 xviii CANOEING IN THE WILDERNESS By Henry D. Thoreau Illustrated By Will Hammell ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X ILLUSTRATIONS The Indian Guide's Evening Prayer Frontispiece The Stage on the Road to Moosehead Lake 8 Making a Camp in the Streamside Woodland 52 Fishing 72 The Red Squirrel 78 Coming down the Rapids 132 Shooting the Moose 154 Carrying round the Falls 180