The Natural World: The earth, closely observed

The great nature writers — Thoreau at Walden, Muir in the Sierra, Burroughs in the woods, Fabre among the insects — observation raised to art.

In this collection

• Our Rural Divinity
• Homer; Ossian; Chaucer
• The Moon
• The Story of my Boyhood and Youth
• Autumnal Tints
• The only Permanent Shore
• The Chickadee
• A Breath of April
• A Life of Fear
• The Raccoon
• A Bird Medley
• The Downy Woodpecker Poem
• The Breath of Life
• The Last Days of John Brown
• The Robin
• Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum
• The Thaw
• The Cowbird
• Chesuncook
• Spring Poems
• Before Beauty
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
• Before Genius
• Night and Moonlight
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