Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20)

gracefully to the aid of his expression, and hence, though he live in it, his books contain no tolerable pictures of the country and simple life. Very few men can speak of Natur...

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...

Aside from the use Thoreau himself made of his Journal in writing his more formal works, the first extensive publication of the Journal material began in 1881 with "Early Spring...

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...

Good Courage—The Church the Hospital for Men's Souls—Chaucer—Popped Corn—The Literary Style of the Laboring Man—Sir Walter Raleigh—Calmness—The Perfume of the Earth—Unhealthines...

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 Woodch...

The Fisher's Son—Friends—Poetry—A Tame Life—Æschylus—Truth—Duty—Beauty lives by Rhymes—Fishes—Muskrats—The Freshet—Important Events—Ornithology—Inward Poverty—Wild Ducks—The Wor...

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—C...

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...

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...

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—Measur...