Excursions, and Poems

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

• Publisher: A Thousand Fields
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781473335554
• eBook ISBN: 9781473346505
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

This is volume V of "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau". Entitled "Excursions, and Poems", it is primarily a collection of poetry and travelling accounts, although also included are a number of his translations. This book will appeal to all lovers of poetry and nature writing, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Thoreau's wonderful work. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American poet, philosopher, essayist, abolitionist, naturalist, development critic, and historian. He was also a leading figure in Transcendentalism, and is best known for his book "Walden", a treatise on simple living in a natural environment. Other notable works by this author include: "The Landlord" (1843), "Reform and the Reformers" (1846-48), and "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854). Contents include: "A Yankee In Canada", "Natural History Of Massachusetts", "A Walk To Wachusett", "The Landlord", "A Winter Walk The Succession Of Forest Trees", "Walking", "Autumnal Tints", "Nature", "Inspiration", "The Aurora Of Guido", "To The Maiden In The East", "To My Brother", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

THE PROMETHEUS
BOUND OF ÆSCHYLUS

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA

Kratos and Bia (Strength and Force).

Hephaistus (Vulcan).

Prometheus.

Chorus of Ocean Nymphs.

Oceanus.

Io, Daughter of Inachus.

Hermes.

Kratos and Bia, Hephaistus, Prometheus.

Kr. We are come to the far-bounding plain of earth,

To the Scythian way, to the unapproached solitude.

Hephaistus, orders must have thy attention,

Which the Father has enjoined on thee, this bold one

To the high-hanging rocks to bind

In indissoluble fetters of adamantine bonds.

For thy flower, the splendor of fire useful in all arts,

Stealing, he bestowed on mortals; and for such

A crime 't is fit he should give satisfaction to the gods;

That he may learn the tyranny of Zeus

To love, and cease from his man-loving ways.

Heph. Kratos and Bia, your charge from Zeus

Already has its end, and nothing further in the way;

But I cannot endure to bind

A kindred god by force to a bleak precipice,—

Yet absolutely there's necessity that I have courage for these things;

For it is hard the Father's words to banish.

High-plotting son of the right-counseling Themis,

Unwilling thee unwilling in brazen fetters hard to be loosed

I am about to nail to this inhuman hill,

Where neither voice [you'll hear], nor form of any mortal

See, but, scorched by the sun's clear flame,

Will change your color's bloom; and to you glad

The various-robed night will conceal the light,

And sun disperse the morning frost again;

And always the burden of the present ill

Will wear you; for he that will relieve you has not yet been born.

Such fruits you've reaped from your man-loving ways,

For a god, not shrinking from the wrath of gods,

You have bestowed honors on mortals more than just,

For which this pleasureless rock you'll sentinel,

Standi...

Table of contents

• Henry David Thoreau
• NATURAL HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS[3]
• A WALK TO WACHUSETT
• THE LANDLORD
• A WINTER WALK
• THE SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES[6]
• WALKING
• AUTUMNAL TINTS
• WILD APPLES
• NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT
• THE PROMETHEUS BOUND OF ÆSCHYLUS
• TRANSLATIONS FROM PINDAR