Leaves of Grass
Whitman
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- BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONSSample
- BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
- BOOK V. CALAMUS
- BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE
- BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
- BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY
- BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
- As I Ponder’d in Silence
- In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
- To a Historian
- To Thee Old Cause
- Eidolons
- When I Read the Book
- Beginners
- On Journeys Through the States
- Me Imperturbe
- I Hear America Singing
- Poets to Come
- BOOK II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
- I Sing the Body Electric
- A Woman Waits for Me
- Spontaneous Me
- One Hour to Madness and Joy
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
- Chapter
- Native Moments
- Chapter
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
- Facing West from California’s Shores
- BOOK V. CALAMUS
- Scented Herbage of My Breast
- Chapter
- For You, O Democracy
- These I Singing in Spring
- Chapter
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
- The Base of All Metaphysics
- Recorders Ages Hence
- Chapter
- Chapter
- 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
- When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
- A Glimpse
- Chapter
- To the East and to the West
- Full of Life Now
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- BOOK VIII
- BOOK IX
- BOOK X
- BOOK XI
- BOOK XII
- BOOK XIII
- BOOK XIV
- BOOK XV
- BOOK XVI
- BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE
- Pioneers! O Pioneers!
- To You
- France [the 18th Year of these States
- Myself and Mine
- Year of Meteors [1859-60
- With Antecedents
- BOOK XVIII
- BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT
- Chapter
- Tears
- To the Man-of-War-Bird
- Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
- On the Beach at Night
- The World below the Brine
- On the Beach at Night Alone
- Song for All Seas, All Ships
- Patroling Barnegat
- After the Sea-Ship
- BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE
- Chapter
- A Hand-Mirror
- Gods
- Germs
- Thoughts
- O Me! O Life!
- I Sit and Look Out
- To Rich Givers
- The Dalliance of the Eagles
- Chapter
- BOOK XXI. DRUM-TAPS
- Eighteen Sixty-One
- Beat! Beat! Drums!
- Chapter
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
- Virginia—The West
- City of Ships
- The Centenarian’s Story
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side
- Come Up from the Fields Father
- Chapter
- Chapter
- Chapter
- Chapter
- The Wound-Dresser
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
- Dirge for Two Veterans
- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
- I Saw Old General at Bay
- The Artilleryman’s Vision
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
- Not Youth Pertains to Me
- Reconciliation
- Chapter
- Chapter
- To a Certain Civilian
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks
- Chapter
- Adieu to a Soldier
- Turn O Libertad
- To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
- BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
- O Captain! My Captain!
- Chapter
- BOOK XXIII
- BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
- The Return of the Heroes
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- Old Ireland
- The City Dead-House
- This Compost
- To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
- Unnamed Land
- Song of Prudence
- The Singer in the Prison
- Warble for Lilac-Time
- Chapter
- Chapter
- Vocalism
- To Him That Was Crucified
- You Felons on Trial in Courts
- Laws for Creations
- To a Common Prostitute
- I Was Looking a Long While
- Thought
- Miracles
- Sparkles from the Wheel
- To a Pupil
- Unfolded out of the Folds
- Kosmos
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
- O Star of France [1870-71]
- The Ox-Tamer
- Wandering at Morn
- BOOK XXV
- BOOK XXVI
- BOOK XXVII
- BOOK XXVIII
- BOOK XXIX
- BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
- Whispers of Heavenly Death
- Chanting the Square Deific
- Of Him I Love Day and Night
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
- Assurances
- That Music Always Round Me
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- To One Shortly to Die
- Night on the Prairies
- Thought
- BOOK XXXI
- A Paumanok Picture
- BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
- Faces
- The Mystic Trumpeter
- To a Locomotive in Winter
- O Magnet-South
- Mannahatta
- All Is Truth
- A Riddle Song
- Excelsior
- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
- Thoughts
- Mediums
- Weave in, My Hardy Life
- Spain, 1873-74
- Chapter
- Old War-Dreams
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
- BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING
- Years of the Modern
- Ashes of Soldiers
- Thoughts
- Song at Sunset
- As at Thy Portals Also Death
- My Legacy
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
- Camps of Green
- As They Draw to a Close
- Now Finale to the Shore
- So Long!
- To Those Who’ve Fail’d
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
- Preface
- FANCIES AT NAVESINK
- Election Day, November, 1884
- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
- Death of General Grant
- Red Jacket (From Aloft)
- Washington’s Monument February, 1885
- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
- Broadway
- Old Salt Kossabone
- The Dead Tenor
- Continuities
- Yonnondio
- “Going Somewhere”
- Small the Theme of My Chant
- Thanks in Old Age
- The Voice of the Rain
- Chapter
- The Dying Veteran
- Twenty Years
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
- Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
- After the Supper and Talk
- BOOKXXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
- The Pallid Wreath
- Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
- Interpolation Sounds
- To the Sun-Set Breeze
- Old Chants
- A Christmas Greeting
- A Twilight Song
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came
- Osceola
- A Voice from Death
- A Persian Lesson
- Mirages
- L. of G.’s Purport
- The Unexpress’d
- Grand Is the Seen
- Good-Bye My Fancy!