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Leaves of Grass (1867)
Table of Contents
- inscription.
- starting from paumanok.
- walt whitman.
- children of adam.
- to the garden, the world.
- from pent-up aching rivers.
- i sing the body electric.
- a woman waits for me.
- spontaneous me
- one hour to madness and joy
- we two—how long we were fool'd.
- native moments.
- once i pass'd through a populous city.
- facing west from california's shores.
- ages and ages, returning at intervals.
- o hymen! o hymenee.
- i am he that aches with love.
- as adam, early in the morning.
- excelsior.
- calamus.
- in paths untrodden.
- scented herbage of my breast.
- whoever you are, holding me now in hand.
- these i, singing in spring.
- a song.
- not heaving from my ribb'd breast only.
- of the terrible doubt of appearances.
- recorders ages hence.
- when i heard at the close of the day.
- are you the new person drawn toward me?
- roots and leaves themselves alone.
- not heat flames up and consumes.
- trickle, drops.
- of him i love day and night.
- city of orgies.
- behold this swarthy face.
- i saw in louisiana a live-oak growing.
- that music always round me.
- to a stranger.
- this moment, yearning and thoughtful.
- i hear it was charged against me.
- the prairie-grass dividing.
- we two boys together clinging.
- o living always—always dying!
- when i peruse the conquer'd fame.
- a glimpse.
- a promise to california.
- here, sailor!
- here the frailest leaves of me.
- what think you i take my pen in hand?
- no labor-saving machine.
- i dreamed in a dream.
- to the east and to the west.
- earth! my likeness!
- a leaf for hand in hand.
- fast anchor'd, eternal, o love.
- sometimes with one i love.
- that shadow, my likeness.
- among the multitude.
- to a western boy.
- o you whom i often and silently come.
- full of life, now.
- salut au monde!
- what place is besieged?
- leaves of grass.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- beginners.
- tests.
- perfections.
- song of the broad-axe.
- with antecedents.
- savantism.
- crossing brooklyn ferry.
- to a foil'd revolter or revoltress.
- to get betimes in boston town.
- to a common prostitute.
- to a pupil.
- to rich givers.
- a word out of the sea.
- a leaf of faces.
- stronger lessons.
- europe, the 72d and 73d years of these states.
- thought.
- the runner.
- to the sayers of words.
- longings for home.
- to a president.
- walt whitman's caution.
- to other lands.
- song of the open road.
- to the states, to identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th presidentiad.
- to a certain cantatrice.
- to workingmen.
- debris.
- leaves of grass.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- american feuillage.
- mannahatta.
- to you.
- france, the 18th year of these states.
- a hand-mirror.
- thoughts.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5.
- 6.
- 7.
- to him that was crucified.
- to old age.
- to one shortly to die.
- to you.
- unnamed lands.
- kosmos.
- when i read the book.
- says.
- despairing cries.
- picture.
- poems of joy.
- respondez!
- the city dead-house.
- leaflets.
- leaves of grass.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5.
- visor'd.
- not the pilot.
- as if a phantom caress'd me.
- picture.
- great are the myths.
- now list to my morning's romanza.
- burial.
- this compost!
- i hear america singing.
- manhattan's streets i saunter'd, pondering.
- i was looking a long while.
- the indications.
- leaves of grass.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- me imperturbe.
- sleep-chasings.
- elemental drifts.
- miracles.
- you felons on trial in courts.
- mediums.
- now lift me close.
- drum-taps.
- shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
- cavalry crossing a ford.
- song of the banner at day-break.
- by the bivouac's fitful flame.
- 1861.
- from paumanok starting i fly like a bird.
- beginning my studies.
- the centenarian's story.
- pioneers! o pioneers!
- quicksand years that whirl me i know not whither.
- the dresser.
- when i heard the learn'd astronomer.
- rise o days from your fathom-less deeps.
- a child's amaze.
- beat! beat! drums!
- come up from the fields father.
- city of ships.
- mother and babe.
- vigil strange i kept on the field one night.
- bathed in war's perfume.
- a march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown.
- long, too long, o land.
- a sight in camp in the day-break grey and dim.
- a farm picture.
- give me the splendid silent sun.
- over the carnage rose prophetic a voice.
- did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
- year of meteors. (1859-60.)
- the torch.
- years of the unperform'd.
- year that trembled and reel'd beneath me.
- the veteran's vision.
- o tan-faced prairie-boy.
- camps of green.
- as toilsome i wander'd virginia's woods.
- hymn of dead soldiers.
- the ship.
- a broadway pageant. (reception japanese embassy, june 16, 1860.)
- flag of stars, thick-sprinkled bunting.
- old ireland.
- look down fair moon.
- out of the rolling ocean, the crowd.
- world, take good notice.
- i saw old general at bay.
- others may praise what they like.
- solid, ironical, rolling orb.
- hush'd be the camps to-day. a. l. buried april 19, 1865.
- weave in, weave in, my hardy life.
- turn o libertad.
- bivouac on a mountain side.
- pensive on her dead gazing, i heard the mother of all.
- not youth pertains to me.
- when lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd.
- race of veterans.
- o captain! my captain!
- spirit whose work is done.
- chanting the square deific.
- i heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ.
- not my enemies ever invade me.
- o me! o life!
- ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats.
- as i lay with my head in your lap, camerado.
- this day, o soul.
- in clouds descending, in midnight sleep.
- an army on the march.
- dirge for two veterans.
- how solemn, as one by one.
- lo! victress on the peaks!
- reconciliation.
- to the leaven'd soil they trod.
- as i sat alone by blue ontario's shore.
- leaves of grass.
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- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5
- thoughts.
- 1.
- 2.
- as nearing departure.
- as i walk, solitary, unattended.
- song at sunset.
- to a historian.
- assurances.
- so long!