Leaves of Grass (1872)

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass (1872)
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Front Matter

Cluster INSCRIPTIONS.

Poem ONE'S-SELF I SING.

Poem AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE.

Poem IN CABIN'D SHIPS AT SEA.

Poem TO FOREIGN LANDS.

Poem TO A HISTORIAN.

Poem FOR HIM I SING.

Poem WHEN I READ THE BOOK.

Poem BEGINNING MY STUDIES.

Poem TO THEE, OLD CAUSE!

Poem STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.

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Poem THE SHIP STARTING.

Poem UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS.

Poem TO YOU.

Poem LEAVES OF GRASS. WALT WHITMAN.

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Poem LAWS FOR CREATIONS.

Poem VISOR'D.

Cluster CHILDREN OF ADAM.

Poem TO THE GARDEN, THE WORLD.

Poem FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

Poem I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC.

Poem A WOMAN WAITS FOR ME.

Poem SPONTANEOUS ME.

Poem ONE HOUR TO MADNESS AND JOY.

Poem WE TWO — HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.

Poem OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN, THE CROWD.

Poem NATIVE MOMENTS.

Poem ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

Poem FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORES.

Poem AGES AND AGES, RETURNING AT INTERVALS.

Poem O HYMEN! O HYMENEE!

Poem AS ADAM, EARLY IN THE MORNING.

Poem I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH LOVE.

Poem TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED.

Poem PERFECTIONS.

Cluster CALAMUS.

Poem IN PATHS UNTRODDEN.

Poem SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY BREAST.

Poem Whoever you are, Holding me now in Hand.

Poem THESE I, SINGING IN SPRING.

Poem A SONG.

Poem NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST ONLY.

Poem OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES.

Poem The Base of all Metaphysics.

Poem RECORDERS AGES HENCE.

Poem WHEN I HEARD AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY.

Poem Are You the New Person drawn toward Me?

Poem Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone.

Poem Not Heat Flames up and Consumes.

Poem Trickle, Drops.

Poem City of Orgies.

Poem Behold this Swarthy Face.

Poem I saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing.

Poem TO A STRANGER.

Poem This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful.

Poem I Hear it was Charged Against Me.

Poem The Prairie-Grass Dividing.

Poem We Two Boys Together Clinging.

Poem A PROMISE TO CALIFORNIA.

Poem HERE THE FRAILEST LEAVES OF ME.

Poem When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame.

Poem WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND?

Poem A GLIMPSE.

Poem NO LABOR-SAVING MACHINE.

Poem A LEAF FOR HAND IN HAND.

Poem TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST.

Poem EARTH! MY LIKENESS!

Poem I DREAM'D IN A DREAM.

Poem FAST ANCHOR'D, ETERNAL, O LOVE!

Poem Sometimes with One I Love.

Poem That Shadow, my Likeness.

Poem AMONG THE MULTITUDE.

Poem TO A WESTERN BOY.

Poem O YOU WHOM I OFTEN AND SILENTLY COME.

Poem Full of Life, Now.

Poem LEAVES OF GRASS.

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Poem A CHILD'S AMAZE.

Poem THE RUNNER.

Poem BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Poem MOTHER AND BABE.

Poem THOUGHT.

Poem AMERICAN FEUILLAGE.

Poem SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.

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Poem SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.

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Cluster LEAVES OF GRASS.

Poem I SIT AND LOOK OUT.

Poem ME IMPERTURBE.

Poem As I Lay with my Head in your Lap, Camerado.

Poem CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.

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Poem WITH ANTECEDENTS.

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Cluster THE ANSWERER.

Poem NOW LIST TO MY MORNING'S ROMANZA.

Poem THE INDICATIONS.

Poem POETS TO COME.

Poem I HEAR AMERICA SINGING.

Poem THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE.

Poem A FARM PICTURE.

Poem CAROL OF OCCUPATIONS.

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Poem THOUGHTS.

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Poem THE SLEEPERS.

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Poem CAROL OF WORDS.

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Poem Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats.

Cluster LEAVES OF GRASS.

Poem A BOSTON BALLAD. (1854.)

Poem YEAR OF METEORS. (1859 — 60.)

Poem A BROADWAY PAGEANT. RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860.

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Poem SUGGESTIONS.

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Poem GREAT ARE THE MYTHS.

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Poem Thought.

Cluster LEAVES OF GRASS.

Poem THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH.

Poem LONGINGS FOR HOME.

Poem THINK OF THE SOUL.

Poem You Felons on Trial in Courts.

Poem To a Common Prostitute.

Poem I was Looking a Long While.

Poem To a President.

Poem TO THE STATES, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad.

Cluster DRUM-TAPS.

Poem DRUM-TAPS.

Poem 1861.

Poem BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!

Poem FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD.

Poem RISE, O DAYS, FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS.

Poem CITY OF SHIPS.

Poem THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY. VOLUNTEER OF 1861-2. (At Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting the Centenarian.)

Poem THE CENTENARIAN.

Poem TERMINUS.

Poem An Army Corps on the March.

Poem Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

Poem Bivouac on a Mountain Side.

Poem By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame.

Poem Come Up from the Fields, Father.

Poem VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT.

Poem A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST, AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN.

Poem A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAY-BREAK GREY AND DIM.

Poem NOT THE PILOT.

Poem AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS.

Poem Year that Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me.

Poem THE DRESSER.

Poem LONG, TOO LONG, O LAND.

Poem GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN.

Poem DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS.

Poem OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE.

Poem THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION.

Poem I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY.

Poem O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.

Poem LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON.

Poem RECONCILIATION.

Poem SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE. (Washington City, 1865.)

Poem HOW SOLEMN, AS ONE BY ONE.(Washington City, 1865.)

Poem Not Youth Pertains to Me.

Poem TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD.

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Poem FACES

Poem MANHATTAN'S STREETS I SAUNTER'D,PONDERING.

Poem All is Truth.

Poem Voices.

Cluster MARCHES NOW THE WAR IS OVER.

Poem AS I SAT ALONE BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE.

Poem PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!

Poem RESPONDEZ!

Poem TURN, O LIBERTAD.

Poem ADIEU TO A SOLDIER.

Poem As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days.

Poem WEAVE IN, WEAVE IN, MY HARDY LIFE.

Poem RACE OF VETERANS.

Poem O SUN OF REAL PEACE.

Cluster LEAVES OF GRASS.

Poem THIS COMPOST.

Poem UNNAMED LANDS.

Poem MANNAHATTA.

Poem OLD IRELAND.

Poem To ORATISTS.

Poem SOLID, IRONICAL, ROLLING ORB.

Cluster BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME.

Poem BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME.

Poem DELICATE CLUSTER.

Poem SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAY-BREAK.

Poem ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS. (A Reminiscence of 1864.)

Poem Thick-Sprinkled Bunting.

Poem A HAND-MIRROR.

Poem Germs.

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Poem O ME! O LIFE!

Poem THOUGHTS.

Poem BEGINNERS.

Cluster SONGS OF INSURRECTION.

Poem STILL THOUGH THE ONE I SING.

Poem TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE.

Poem FRANCE, The 18th Year of These States.

SubSection EUROPE, The 72d and 73d Years of These States.

Poem Walt Whitman's Caution.

Poem To a Certain Cantatrice.

Cluster LEAVES OF GRASS.

Poem To You.

Cluster SONGS OF PARTING.

Poem AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH.

Poem YEARS OF THE MODERN.

Poem THOUGHTS.

Poem Song at Sunset.

Poem WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER.

Poem TO RICH GIVERS.

Poem THOUGHT.

Poem SO LONG!