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 ÆSCHYLUS 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