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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
Table of Contents
- inscriptions.
- one's-self i sing.
- as i ponder'd in silence.
- in cabin'd ships at sea.
- to foreign lands.
- to a historian.
- for him i sing.
- when i read the book.
- beginning my studies.
- to thee, old cause!
- starting from paumanok.
- the ship starting.
- unfolded out of the folds.
- to you.
- walt whitman.
- laws for creations.
- visor'd.
- 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.
- out of the rolling ocean, the crowd.
- 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!
- as adam, early in the morning.
- i heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ.
- i am he that aches with love.
- to him that was crucified.
- perfections.
- 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.
- the base of all metaphysics.
- 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.
- city of orgies.
- behold this swarthy face.
- i saw in louisiana a live-oak growing.
- to a stranger.
- this moment, yearning and thoughtful.
- i hear it was charged against me.
- the prairie-grass dividing.
- we two boys together clinging.
- a promise to california.
- here the frailest leaves of me.
- when i peruse the conquer'd fame.
- what think you i take my pen in hand?
- a glimpse.
- no labor-saving machine.
- a leaf for hand in hand.
- to the east and to the west.
- earth! my likeness!
- i dream'd in a dream.
- 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!
- a child's amaze.
- the runner.
- beautiful women.
- mother and babe.
- thought.
- american feuillage.
- song of the broad-axe.
- song of the open road.
- leaves of grass.
- i sit and look out.
- me imperturbe.
- as i lay with my head in your lap, camerado.
- crossing brooklyn ferry.
- with antecedents.
- the answerer.
- now list to my morning's romanza.
- the indications.
- poets to come.
- i hear america singing.
- the city dead-house.
- a farm picture.
- carol of occupations.
- thoughts.
- the sleepers.
- carol of words.
- ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats.
- leaves of grass.
- a boston ballad. (1854.)
- year of meteors.
- a broadway pageant.
- suggestions.
- great are the myths.
- thought.
- leaves of grass.
- there was a child went forth.
- longings for home.
- think of the soul.
- you felons on trial in courts.
- to a common prostitute.
- i was looking a long while.
- to a president.
- to the states,
- drum-taps.
- drum-taps.
- 1861.
- beat! beat! drums!
- from paumanok starting i fly like a bird.
- rise, o days, from your fathomless deeps.
- city of ships.
- the centenarian's story.
- an army corps on the march.
- cavalry crossing a ford.
- bivouac on a mountain side.
- by the bivouac's fitful flame.
- come up from the fields, father.
- vigil strange i kept on the field one night.
- a march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown.
- a sight in camp in the day-break grey and dim.
- not the pilot.
- as toilsome i wander'd virginia's woods.
- year that trembled and reel'd beneath me.
- the dresser.
- long, too long, o land.
- give me the splendid silent sun.
- dirge for two veterans.
- over the carnage rose prophetic a voice.
- the artilleryman's vision.
- i saw old general at bay.
- o tan-faced prairie-boy.
- look down fair moon.
- reconciliation.
- spirit whose work is done.
- how solemn, as one by one.
- not youth pertains to me.
- to the leaven'd soil they trod.
- leaves of grass.
- faces
- manhattan's streets i saunter'd, pondering.
- all is truth.
- voices.
- marches now the war is over.
- as i sat alone by blue ontario's shore.
- pioneers! o pioneers!
- respondez!
- turn, o libertad.
- adieu to a soldier.
- as i walk these broad, majestic days.
- weave in, weave in, my hardy life.
- race of veterans.
- o sun of real peace.
- leaves of grass.
- this compost.
- unnamed lands.
- mannahatta.
- old ireland.
- to oratists.
- solid, ironical, rolling orb.
- bathed in war's perfume.
- bathed in war's perfume.
- delicate cluster.
- song of the banner at day-break.
- ethiopia saluting the colors.
- thick-sprinkled bunting.
- a hand-mirror.
- germs.
- leaves of grass.
- o me! o life!
- thoughts.
- beginners.
- songs of insurrection.
- still though the one i sing.
- to a foil'd european revolutionaire.
- france,
- europe,
- walt whitman's caution.
- to a certain cantatrice.
- leaves of grass.
- to you.
- songs of parting.
- as the time draws nigh.
- years of the modern.
- thoughts.
- song at sunset.
- when i heard the learn'd astronomer.
- to rich givers.
- thought.
- so long!
- passage to india.
- thought.
- o living always—always dying.
- proud music of the storm.
- ashes of soldiers.
- ashes of soldiers.
- in midnight sleep.
- camps of green.
- to a certain civilian.
- pensive on her dead gazing, i heard the mother of all.
- president lincoln's burial hymn.
- when lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd.
- o captain! my captain!
- hush'd be the camps to-day.
- this dust was once the man.
- poem of joys.
- to think of time.
- chanting the square deific.
- whispers of heavenly death.
- whispers of heavenly death.
- darest thou now o soul.
- of him i love day and night.
- assurances.
- yet, yet, ye downcast hours.
- quicksand years.
- that music always round me.
- as if a phantom caress'd me.
- here, sailor!
- a noiseless, patient spider.
- the last invocation.
- as i watch'd the ploughman ploughing.
- pensive and faltering.
- sea-shore memories.
- out of the cradle endlessly rocking.
- as i ebb'd with the ocean of life.
- tears.
- aboard, at a ship's helm.
- on the beach, at night.
- the world below the brine.
- on the beach at night alone.
- leaves of grass.
- a carol of harvest, for 1867.
- the singer in the prison.
- warble for lilac time.
- who learns my lesson complete?
- thought.
- myself and mine.
- to old age.
- miracles.
- sparkles from the wheel.
- excelsior.
- mediums.
- kosmos.
- to a pupil.
- what am i, after all.
- others may praise what they like.
- brother of all, with generous hand.
- night on the prairies.
- on journeys through the states.
- savantism.
- locations and times.
- thought.
- offerings.
- tests.
- the torch.
- gods.
- to one shortly to die.
- lessons.
- now finale to the shore.
- now finale to the shore.
- shut not your doors, &c.
- thought.
- the untold want.
- portals.
- these carols.
- this day, o soul.
- what place is besieged?
- to the reader at parting.
- joy, shipmate, joy!