Chapter I

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

later than; following

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

used to show sadness, pity, or regret

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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.

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

surrounded by; in the middle of a group

From this reading 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.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

for the reason that

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

earlier than; in front of

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

showing who or what does the action

From this reading 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.

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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.

the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading 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.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading 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.

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading 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.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 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.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

not any; not one

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading 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.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 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.

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 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.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading 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.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading 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.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading 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.

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

a formal word for “on”

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading 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.

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From this reading 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.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading 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.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading _The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved.

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From this reading 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.

belonging to which person

From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading After 1843 he seems to have written but few poems, and had destroyed perhaps as many as he had retained, because they did not meet the exacting requirements of his friend Emerson, upon whose opinion at that time he placed great reliance.

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading 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._ _Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, ‘Just now’ he wrote in the autumn of 1841, ‘I am in the mid-sea of verses, and they actually rustle round me, as the leaves would round the head of Autumnus himself, should he thrust it up through some vales which I know; but, alas! many of them are but crisped and yellow leaves like his, I fear, and will deserve no better fate than to make mould for new harvests.’

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From this reading BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV.