BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV. _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of them were printed by him, in whole or in part, among his early contributions to Emerson’s_ Dial, _or in his own two volumes_, The Week _and_ Walden, _which were all that were issued in his lifetime. Others were given to Mr. Sanborn for publication, by Sophia Thoreau, the year after her brother’s death (several appeared in the_ Boston Commonwealth _in 1863); or have been furnished from time to time by Mr. Blake, his literary executor._…
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