Who is Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic...
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Henry David Thoreau Poems

  • Epitaph On The World
    Here lies the body of this world,
    Whose soul alas to hell is hurled.
    This golden youth long since was past,
    Its silver manhood went as fast, ...
  • The Poet's Delay
    IN vain I see the morning rise,
    In vain observe the western blaze,
    Who idly look to other skies,
    Expecting life by other ways. ...
  • Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong
    Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong,
    Which asks no duties and no conscience?
    The moon goes up by leaps, her cheerful path
    In some far summer stratum of the sky, ...
  • The Moon
    Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide;
    Mortality below her orb is placed.
    --Raleigh
    ...
  • To A Marsh Hawk In Spring
    There is health in thy gray wing,
    Health of natureâ??s furnishing.
    Say, thou modern-winged antique,
    Was thy mistress ever sick? ...
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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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