For the first time I perceive this spring
that the year is a circle.
I would make a chart of our life,
know why just this circle of creatures completes the world.
Henry Thoreau, April 18, 1852
The Hypoxis erecta, yellow Bethlehem-star,
where there is a thick, wiry grass in open path;
should be called yellow-eyed grass, methinks.
May 22. A yellow Bethlehem-star. May 22, 1853
May 28. White thorn and yellow Bethlehem-star (Hypoxis erecta). May 28, 1852
May 28. Hypoxis erecta, maybe a day or two. May 28, 1856
June 5. Yellow Bethlehem-star in prime. June 5, 1855
June 6. Yellow Bethlehem-star. June 6, 1858
June 9. There are many star flowers. I remember the anemone, especially the rue anemone, which is not yet all gone, lasting longer than the true one above all the trientalis, and of late the yellow Bethlehem-star, and perhaps others. June 9, 1853
June 15. The Hypoxis erecta, yellow Bethlehem-star, where there is a thick, wiry grass in open path; should be called yellow-eyed grass, methinks. June 15, 1851
July 31. See yellow Bethlehem-star still. July 31, 1856
August 4. The yellow Bethlehem-star still, and the yellow gerardia, and a bluish "savory-leaved aster." August 4, 1851
August 18. Yellow Bethlehem-star yet, and indigo. August 18, 1856
August 24. Yellow Bethlehem-star still. August 24, 1853
Hypoxis erecta or Hypoxis hirsuta, common star-grass,
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Yellow Bethlehem-star
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2025
