Books:

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers »
  A narrative of a boating trip that Thoreau took with his brother in 1839 from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. (197 pages)
  
  
• A Yankee in Canada »
  Five-part description of Thoreau's 1850 trip to Canada: Concord to Montreal, Quebec and Montmorenci, St Anne, River St. Lawrence... (45 pages)
  
  
• Cape Cod »
  Thoreau's sunniest, happiest book. It describes several trips he made to Cape Cod between 1849 and 1855. (112 pages)
  
  
• The Maine Woods »
  An account of three trips taken by boat and canoe; Ktaadn in 1846, Chesuncook in 1853 and Allegash and East Branch in 1857. (153 pages)
  
  
• Walden »
  Walden; or, Life in the Woods is a nonfiction book about Thoreau's experience at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, from July 1845 to September 1847. (172 pages)
  
  

Essays:

• A Plea for Captain John Brown »
  Thoreau's eloquent defense of the radical abolitionist, who with twenty-one other men seized the federal armory at Harper's Ferry. (14 pages)
  
  
• A Walk to Wachusett »
  An essay about a journey Thoreau took with Richard Fuller, from Concord to the summit of Mount Wachusett located in Princeton, Massachusetts. (10 pages)
  
  
• A Winter Walk »
  An essay that deals with relationship with nature. It describes a walk taken by Thoreau during the winter. (10 pages)
  
  
• After the Death of John Brown »
  Speech given by Thoreau himself on 2 December 1859 at the time of John Brown's execution. (2 pages)
  
  
• Aulus Persius Flaccus »
  Thoreau's essay about Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. (4 pages)
  
  
• Autumnal Tints »
  Thoreau's classic essay about nature. Autumnal Tints eloquenty describes the colors of New England fall. (20 pages)
  
  
• Civil Disobedience »
  An essay, also known as Resistance to Civil Government, about the relationships between individual citizens and their government. (16 pages)
  
  
• Dark Ages »
  Short historical essay that was first published in The Dial 1843. (2 pages)
  
  
• Herald of Freedom »
  An essay that praises Herald of Freedom - the journal of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and its editor, Nathaniel P. Rogers. (6 pages)
  
  
• Life Without Principle »
  An essay in which Thoreau condemns the American social system and lays out his program for righteous living. (13 pages)
  
  
• Natural History of Massachusetts »
  Natural History of Massachusetts is a half book review, half natural history essay, consisting of revised passages from Thoreau's journal. (14 pages)
  
  
• Night and Moonlight »
  An essay concerned with the observations of Thoreau as a naturalist. (5 pages)
  
  
• Paradise to be Regained »
  An essay that takes the form of a review of John Adolphus Etzlers book The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. (18 pages)
  
  
• Reform and the Reformers »
  An essay that reflects Thoreau's frustration with the multitude of reformers — prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists... (9 pages)
  
  
• Sir Walter Raleigh »
  An essay in which Thoreau praises Sir Walter Raleigh as a flawed but heroic figure, but who failed to use his heroic character to heroic ends. (25 pages)
  
  
• Slavery in Massachusetts »
  An essay based on a speech Thoreau gave at an anti-slavery rally at on July 4, 1854, after the reenslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns. (10 pages)
  
  
• The Highland Light »
  This is one of Thoreau's Cape Cod essays. The Highland Light is a lighthouse located in Truro, Massachusetts. (12 pages)
  
  
• The Landlord »
  Thoreau's essay published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1843). (5 pages)
  
  
• The Last Days of John Brown »
  An essay that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown (written in 1860). (5 pages)
  
  
• The Service »
  An essay partly on the subject of non-resistance and pacifist writers in which Thoreau warns that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity. (8 pages)
  
  
• The Succession of Forest Trees »
  An essay in which Thoreau analyzes aspects of forest ecology and urges farmers to plant trees in natural patterns of succession. (10 pages)
  
  
• Thomas Carlyle and His Works »
  An essay in which Thoreau praises the writings of Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. (20 pages)
  
  
• Walking »
  Walking is an essay on experiencing the natural world, focusing on relationship between nature and civilization. (21 pages)
  
  
• Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum »
  A letter to the editor published in The Liberator in 1845 that praised the abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips. (2 pages)
  
  
• Wild Apples »
  An essay about history and variations of the wild apple species. Thoreau's love letter to wild apples. (16 pages)
  
  

Correspondence:

• Emerson - Thoreau Letters (I-V) 1847 »
  The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1847. Letters I-V. (9 pages)
  
  
• Emerson - Thoreau Letters (VI-X) 1848 »
  Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1848. Letters VI-X. (6 pages)
  
  
• Emerson - Thoreau Letters (XI-XV) 1848-56 »
  The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from 1848 to 1856. Letters XI-XV. (5 pages)
  
  
• Emerson - Thoreau Letters (I-VI) The Dial Period »
  Correspondence between Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters I to VI. (8 pages)
  
  
• Emerson - Thoreau Letters (VII-XI) The Dial Period »
  Correspondence between Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters VII to XI. (7 pages)
  
  
• Emerson -Thoreau Letters (XI-XVI) The Dial Period »
  Correspondence between Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters XI to XVI. (6 pages)
  
  

Poems:

• All Things Are Current Found »
  A short poem - ALL things are current found, On earthly ground, Spirits and elements, Have their descents. (1 page)
  
  
• Away! Away! Away! Away! »
  Short poem - Away! away! away! away! Ye have not kept your secret well, I will abide that other day, Those other lands ye tell. (1 page)
  
  
• Conscience »
  A poem - Conscience is instinct bred in the house, Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin, By an unnatural breeding in and in. (1 page)
  
  
• Epitaph On The World »
  A short poem - Here lies the body of this world, Whose soul alas to hell is hurled... (1 page)
  
  
• Free Love »
  A short poem - MY love must be as free, As is the eagle's wing, Hovering o'er land and sea, And every thing. (1 page)
  
  
• Friendship »
  A poem about friendship - I think awhile of Love, and while I think, Love is to me a world... (1 page)
  
  
• I Am A Parcel Of Vain Striving Tied »
  Poem - I am a parcel of vain strivings tied, By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that... (1 page)
  
  
• I Am The Autumnal Sun »
  A short poem - Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature -- not his Father but his Mother stirs... (1 page)
  
  
• I Knew A Man By Sight »
  A short poem - I knew a man by sight, A blameless wight, Who, for a year or more, Had daily passed my door, Yet converse none had had with him. (1 page)
  
  
• Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell »
  A short poem - Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell, Though I ponder on it well, Which were easier to state, All my love or all my hate. (1 page)
  
  
• Inspiration »
  Poem - Whate'er we leave to God, God does, And blesses us; The work we choose should be our own, God leaves alone. (2 pages)
  
  
• Let such pure hate still underprop »
  Poem - Friends, Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers. Let such pure hate still underprop, Our love, that we may be Each other's conscience (1 page)
  
  
• Low Anchored Cloud Mist »
  A short poem - Low-anchored cloud, Newfoundland air,Fountain-head and source of rivers, Dew-cloth, dream-drapery... (1 page)
  
  
• Pray to What Earth »
  A poem - Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong, Which asks no duties and no conscience? (1 page)
  
  
• Prayer »
  A poem - Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf, Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high... (1 page)
  
  
• Rumors from an Aeolian Harp »
  A poem - There is a vale which none hath seen, Where foot of man has never been, Such as here lives with toil and strife... (1 page)
  
  
• Sic Vita »
  A poem - I am a parcel of vain strivings tied, By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that, their links, Were made so loose and wide... (1 page)
  
  
• Smoke »
  A short poem - Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn... (1 page)
  
  
• Sympathy »
  A poem - Lately alas I knew a gentle boy, Whose features all were cast in Virtue's mould, As one she had designed for Beauty's toy, But after manned him for her own strong-hold. (1 page)
  
  
• The Inward Morning »
  A poem - Packed in my mind lie all the clothes, Which outward nature wears, And in its fasion's hourly change, It all things else repairs... (1 page)
  
  
• The Moon »
  A short poem - Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide; Mortality below her orb is placed. (1 page)
  
  
• The Poets Delay »
  A short poem - In vain I see the morning rise, In vain observe the western blaze, Who idly look to other skies, Expecting life by other ways. (1 page)
  
  
• The Summer Rain »
  A poem - My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, 'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large, Down in the meadow, where is richer feed... (1 page)
  
  
• They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below »
  A short poem - They who prepare my evening meal below, Carelessly hit the kettle as they go, With tongs or shovel... (1 page)
  
  
• Though All the Fates »
  A poem - THOUGH all the fates should prove unkind, Leave not your native land behind. (1 page)
  
  
• Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life »
  A poem - Within the circuit of this plodding life, There enter moments of an azure hue, Untarnished fair as is the violet... (1 page)