Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass
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• 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 To Thee Old Cause

• Poem Eidólons

• Poem For Him I Sing

• Poem When I Read the Book

• Poem Beginning My Studies

• Poem Beginners

• Poem To The States

• Poem On Journeys through the States

• Poem To a Certain Cantatrice

• Poem Me Imperturbe

• Poem Savantism

• Poem The Ship Starting

• Poem I Hear America Singing

• Poem What Place Is Besieged?

• Poem Still Though the One I Sing

• Poem Shut Not Your Doors

• Poem Poets to Come

• Poem To You

• Poem Thou Reader

• Poem STARTING FROM PAUMANOK

• Poem SONG OF MYSELF

Book 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 Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd

• Poem Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals

• Poem We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd

• Poem O Hymen! O Hymenee!

• Poem I Am He that Aches with Love

• Poem Native Moments

• Poem Once I Pass'd through a Populous City

• Poem I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ

• Poem Facing West from California's Shores

• Poem As Adam Early in the Morning

Book Calamus

• Poem In Paths Untrodden

• Poem Scented Herbage of My Breast

• Poem Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

• Poem For You O Democracy

• Poem These I Singing in Spring

• 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 When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame

• Poem We Two Boys Together Clinging

• Poem A Promise to California

• Poem Here the Frailest Leaves of Me

• Poem No Labor-Saving Machine

• Poem A Glimpse

• Poem A Leaf for Hand in Hand

• Poem Earth, My Likeness

• Poem I Dream'd in a Dream

• Poem What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?

• Poem To the East and to the West

• Poem Sometimes with One I Love

• Poem To a Western Boy

• Poem Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!

• Poem Among the Multitude

• Poem O You Whom I Often and Silently Come

• Poem That Shadow My Likeness

• Poem Full of Life Now

• Poem SALUT AU MONDE!

• Poem SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD

• Poem CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY

• Poem SONG OF THE ANSWERER

• Poem OUR OLD FEUILLAGE

• Poem A SONG OF JOYS

• Poem SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE

• Poem SONG OF THE EXPOSITION

• Poem SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE

• Poem A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS

• Poem A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH

• Poem YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT

Book Birds of Passage

• Poem Song of the Universal

• Poem Pioneers! O Pioneers!

• Poem To You

• Poem France, The 18th Year of these States.

• Poem Myself and Mine

• Poem Year of Meteors (1859 - 60.)

• Poem With Antecedents

• Poem A BROADWAY PAGEANT

Book Sea-Drift

• Poem Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

• Poem As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life

• Poem Tears

• Poem To the Man-of-War-Bird

• Poem Aboard at a Ship's Helm

• Poem On the Beach at Night

• Poem The World below the Brine

• Poem On the Beach at Night Alone

• Poem Song for All Seas, All Ships

• Poem Patroling Barnegat

• Poem After the Sea-Ship

Book By the Roadside

• Poem A Boston Ballad (1854.)

• Poem Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States.

• Poem A Hand-Mirror

• Poem Gods

• Poem Germs

• Poem Thoughts

• Poem When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

• Poem Perfections

• Poem O Me! O Life!

• Poem To a President.

• Poem I Sit and Look Out

• Poem To Rich Givers

• Poem The Dalliance of the Eagles

• Poem Roaming in Thought (After reading HEGEL.)

• Poem A Farm Picture

• Poem A Child's Amaze

• Poem The Runner

• Poem Beautiful Women

• Poem Mother and Babe

• Poem Thought

• Poem Visor'd

• Poem Thought

• Poem Gliding o'er All

• Poem Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour

• Poem Thought

• Poem To Old Age

• Poem Locations and Times

• Poem Offerings

• Poem To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad.

Book Drum-Taps

• Poem First O Songs for a Prelude

• Poem Eighteen Sixty-One

• Poem Beat! Beat! Drums!

• Poem From Paumanok Starting I Fly like a Bird

• Poem Song of the Banner at Daybreak

• Poem Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps

• Poem Virginia — The West

• Poem City of Ships

• Poem The Centenarian's Story

• Poem Cavalry Crossing a Ford

• Poem Bivouac on a Mountain Side

• Poem An Army Corps on the March

• 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 Daybreak Gray and Dim

• Poem As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods

• Poem Not the Pilot

• Poem Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me

• Poem The Wound-Dresser

• Poem Long, Too Long America

• Poem Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

• Poem Dirge for Two Veterans

• Poem Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice

• Poem I Saw Old General at Bay

• Poem The Artilleryman's Vision

• Poem Ethiopia Saluting the Colors

• Poem Not Youth Pertains to Me

• Poem Race of Veterans

• Poem World Take Good Notice

• Poem O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy

• Poem Look Down Fair Moon

• Poem Reconciliation

• Poem How Solemn as One by One (Washington City, 1865.)

• Poem As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado

• Poem Delicate Cluster

• Poem To a Certain Civilian

• Poem Lo, Victress on the Peaks

• Poem Spirit Whose Work Is Done (Washington City, 1865.)

• Poem Adieu to a Soldier

• Poem Turn O Libertad

• Poem To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod

Book Memories of President Lincoln

• Poem When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,

• Poem O Captain! My Captain!

• Poem Hush'd Be the Camps To-day (May 4, 1865.)

• Poem This Dust Was Once the Man

• Poem BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE

• Poem REVERSALS

Book Autumn Rivulets

• Poem As Consequent, Etc.

• Poem The Return of the Heroes

• Poem There Was a Child Went Forth

• Poem Old Ireland

• Poem The City Dead-House

• Poem This Compost

• Poem To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire

• Poem Unnamed Lands

• Poem Song of Prudence

• Poem The Singer in the Prison

• Poem Warble for Lilac-Time

• Poem Outlines for a Tomb (G. P., Buried 1870.)

• Poem Out from Behind This Mask (To Confront a Portrait.)

• Poem Vocalism

• Poem To Him That Was Crucified

• Poem You Felons on Trial in Courts

• Poem Laws for Creations

• Poem To a Common Prostitute

• Poem I Was Looking a Long While

• Poem Thought

• Poem Miracles

• Poem Sparkles from the Wheel

• Poem To a Pupil

• Poem Unfolded Out of the Folds

• Poem What Am I After All

• Poem Kosmos

• Poem Others May Praise What They Like

• Poem Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

• Poem Tests

• Poem The Torch

• Poem O Star of France 1870-71.

• Poem The Ox-Tamer

• Poem An Old Man's Thought of School For the Inauguration of a Public School, Camden, New Jersey, 1874.

• Poem Wandering at Morn

• Poem Italian Music in Dakota ["The Seventeenth — the finest Regimental Band I ever heard."]

• Poem With All Thy Gifts

• Poem My Picture-Gallery

• Poem The Prairie States

• Poem PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM

• Poem PASSAGE TO INDIA

• Poem PRAYER OF COLUMBUS

• Poem THE SLEEPERS

• Poem TRANSPOSITIONS

• Poem TO THING OF TIME

Book Whispers of Heavenly Death

• Poem Darest Thou Now O Soul

• Poem Whispers of Heavenly Death

• Poem Chanting the Square Deific

• Poem Of Him I Love Day and Night

• Poem Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours

• Poem As If a Phantom Caress'd Me

• Poem Assurances

• Poem Quicksand Years

• Poem That Music Always Round Me

• Poem What Ship Puzzled at Sea

• Poem A Noiseless Patient Spider

• Poem O Living Always, Always Dying

• Poem To One Shortly to Die

• Poem Night on the Prairies

• Poem Thought

• Poem The Last Invocation

• Poem As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing

• Poem Pensive and Faltering

• Poem THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD

• Poem A PAUMANOK PICTURE

Book From Noon to Starry Night

• Poem Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling

• Poem Faces

• Poem The Mystic Trumpeter

• Poem To a Locomotive in Winter

• Poem O Magnet-South

• Poem Mannahatta

• Poem All Is Truth

• Poem A Riddle Song

• Poem Excelsior

• Poem Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats

• Poem Thoughts

• Poem Mediums

• Poem Weave in, My Hardy Life

• Poem Spain, 1873-74

• Poem By Broad Potomac's Shore

• Poem From Far Dakota's Cañons June 25, 1876.

• Poem Old War-Dreams

• Poem Thick-Sprinkled Bunting

• Poem What Best I See in Thee To U. S. G. return'd from his World's Tour.

• Poem Spirit That Form'd This Scene Written in Platte Cañon, Colorado.

• Poem As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

• Poem A Clear Midnight

Book Songs of Parting

• Poem As the Time Draws Nigh

• Poem Years of the Modern

• Poem Ashes of Soldiers

• Poem Thoughts

• Poem Song at Sunset

• Poem As at Thy Portals Also Death

• Poem My Legacy

• Poem Pensive on Her Dead Gazing

• Poem Camps of Green

• Poem The Sobbing of the Bells (Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881.)

• Poem As They Draw to a Close

• Poem Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

• Poem The Untold Want

• Poem Portals

• Poem These Carols

• Poem Now Finalè to the Shore

• Poem So Long!

Book First Annex: Sands at Seventy

• Poem Mannahatta

• Poem Paumanok

• Poem From Montauk Point

• Poem To Those Who've Fail'd

• Poem A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine

• Poem The Bravest Soldiers

• Poem A Font of Type

• Poem As I Sit Writing Here

• Poem My Canary Bird

• Poem Queries to My Seventieth Year

• Poem The Wallabout Martyrs [In Brooklyn, in an old vault, mark'd by no special recognition, lie huddled at this moment the undoubtedly authentic remains of the stanchest and earliest revolutionary patriots from the British prison ships and prisons of the times of 1776-83, in and around New York, and from all over Long Island; originally buried — many thousands of them — in trenches in the Wallabout sands.]

• Poem The First Dandelion

• Poem America

• Poem Memories

• Poem To-day and Thee

• Poem After the Dazzle of Day

• Poem Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809

• Poem Out of May's Shows Selected

• Poem Halcyon Days.

• Poem Fancies at Navesink

• Poem Election Day, November, 1884

• Poem With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!

• Poem Death of General Grant

• Poem Red Jacket (from Aloft) [Impromptu on Buffalo City's monument to, and re-burial of the old Iroquois orator, October 9, 1884.]

• Poem Washington's Monument, February, 1885

• Poem Of That Blithe Throat of Thine [More than eighty-three degrees north — about a good day's steaming distance to the Pole by one of our fast oceaners in clear water — Greely the explorer heard the song of a single snow-bird merrily sounding over the desolation.]

• Poem Broadway

• Poem To Get the Final Lilt of Songs

• Poem Old Salt Kossabone

• Poem The Dead Tenor

• Poem Continuities [From a talk I had lately with a German spiritualist.]

• Poem Yonnondio [The sense of the word is lament for the aborigines. It is an Iroquois term; and has been used for a personal name.]

• Poem Life

• Poem "Going Somewhere"

• Poem Small the Theme of My Chant From the 1869 edition L. of G.

• Poem True Conquerors

• Poem The United States to Old World Critics

• Poem The Calming Thought of All

• Poem Thanks in Old Age

• Poem Life and Death

• Poem The Voice of the Rain

• Poem Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here

• Poem While Not the Past Forgetting.

• Poem The Dying Veteran [A Long Island incident — early part of the present century.]

• Poem Stronger Lessons

• Poem A Prairie Sunset

• Poem Twenty Years

• Poem Orange Buds by Mail from Florida [Voltaire closed a famous argument by claiming that a ship of war and the grand opera were proofs enough of civilization's and France's progress, in his day.]

• Poem Twilight

• Poem You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me

• Poem Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone

• Poem The Dead Emperor

• Poem As the Greek's Signal Flame [For Whittier's eightieth birthday, December 17, 1887.]

• Poem The Dismantled Ship

• Poem Now Precedent Songs, Farewell

• Poem An Evening Lull

• Poem Old Age's Lambent Peaks

• Poem After the Supper and Talk

Book Second Annex: Good-Bye my Fancy

• Preface Preface Note to 2d Annex Concluding L. of G. — 1891.

• Poem Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!

• Poem Lingering Last Drops

• Poem Good-Bye my Fancy

• Poem On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!

• Poem My 71st Year

• Poem Apparitions

• Poem The Pallid Wreath

• Poem An Ended Day

• Poem Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's

• Poem To the Pending Year

• Poem Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher

• Poem Long, Long Hence

• Poem Bravo, Paris Exposition!

• Poem Interpolation Sounds* [General Philip Sheridan was buried at the Cathedral, Washington, D. C., August, 1888, with all the pomp, music and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic service.]

• Poem To the Sun-set Breeze

• Poem Old Chants

• Poem A Christmas Greeting From a Northern Star-Group to a Southern, 1889-'90.

• Poem Sounds of the Winter

• Poem A Twilight Song

• Poem When the Full-Grown Poet Came

• Poem Osceola [When I was nearly grown to manhood in Brooklyn, New York, (middle of 1838,) I met one of the return'd U. S. Marines from Fort Moultrie, S. C., and had long talks with him — learn'd the occurrence below described — death of Osceola. The latter was a young, brave, leading Seminole in the Florida war of that time — was surrender'd to our troops, imprison'd and literally died of "a broken heart," at Fort Moultrie. He sicken'd of his confinement — the doctor and officers made every allowance and kindness possible for him; then the close:]

• Poem A Voice from Death (The Johnstown, Penn., cataclysm, May 31, 1889.)

• Poem A Persian Lesson

• Poem The Commonplace

• Poem "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" [Sunday, ———. — Went this forenoon to church. A college professor, Rev. Dr. ——, gave us a fine sermon, during which I caught the above words; but the minister included in his "rounded catalogue" letter and spirit, only the esthetic things, and entirely ignored what I name in the following:]

• Poem Mirages (Noted verbatim after a supper-talk out doors in Nevada with two old miners.)

• Poem L. of G.'s Purport

• Poem The Unexpress'd

• Poem Grand Is the Seen

• Poem Unseen Buds

• Poem Good-Bye my Fancy!

• Essay A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads