Henry David Thoreau's Poetry, in Collections

as outlined in episode eight of the video series, Studying Thoreau.

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Letters to Various Persons. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ticknor & Fields, 1865. [9 poems]    Search here for both paperback reprints and original hardcover copies.
Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Volume X: Miscellanies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1893. Also includes Emerson’s biographical sketch of Thoreau, as well as an index to the set. plus “The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus,” “Translations from Pindar,” and 11 essays. [10 poems]

Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Volume 5: Excursions and Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906. Includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada, as well as "The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus," "Translations from Pindar" and 22+ poems. [22+ poems]
Poems of Nature. Selected and edited by Frank Sanborn and Henry Salt. J. Lane, 1895. [50 poems]
Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau. The Bibliophile Society, 1907. [One poem of each poet]
Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau. Edited by Carl Bode. Packard and Company, 1943.  [200 poems]    Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau. Enlarged edition. Edited by Carl Bode. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1964, 1965.  [212 poems]    Click here to search for copies of either edition.
Bode, Carl, ed. The Portable Thoreau. New York: Penguin Books, 1947, 1962, et. al. Also includes A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden; parts of The Maine Woods, A Yankee in Canada, and Cape Cod; some Journal entries; and a selection of essays. [18 poems]

Cramer, Jeffrey S., ed. The Portable Thoreau. New York: Penguin Books, 2012. Also includes Walden; parts of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod; some Journal entries; some Correspondence; and a selection of essays. [21 poems]

Thoreau, Henry David. Collected Essays and Poems. (Library of America) Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 2001. Also includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada.   [203 poems]

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, The Maine Woods, Collected Essays and Poems. (Library of America College Editions) New York: Literary of America, 2007. Also includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada. [203 poems]
The Poet’s Delay: A Collection of Poetry by America’s Greatest Observer of Nature. Illustrated with watercolors by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent and other masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Rizzoli, 1992.  [52 poems]

The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau. Edited and with commentaries by Robert Bly. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Sierra Club Books, 1968. [42 poems, 62 prose passages]
Sweet Wild World: Selections from The Journals arranged as poetry. By William M. White. Charles River Books, 1982.
Walden by Haiku. By Ian Marshall. University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Thoreau, Voice in the Edgeland: A Biography in Sonnets. By Langley Carleton Keyes. University of North Carolina Press, 1955.
Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau’s Last Journey. By Corinne Hosfeld Smith. Green Frigate Books, 2012.

Thoreau at Mackinac: Selected writings of Henry David Thoreau with poetry and prose from Mackinac Island. Mackinac Arts Council, 2017.
Deep Travel: In Thoreau’s Wake on the Concord and Merrimack. By David K. Leff. University of Iowa Press, 2009.
Canoeing Maine’s Legendary Allagash: Thoreau, Romance, and Survival of the Wild. By David K. Leff. Homebound Publications, 2016.
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. By Stephen Fry. Gotham Books, 2005.