Poems of Nature

INTRODUCTION

_The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of them were printed by him, in whole or in part, among his early contributions to Emerson’s_ Dial, _or in his own two volumes_, The Week _and_ Walden, _which were all that were issued in his lifetime. Others were given to Mr. Sanborn fo...