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Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
- One's-Self I Sing
- As I Ponder'd in Silence
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
- To Foreign Lands
- To a Historian
- To Thee Old Cause
- Eidolons
- For Him I Sing
- When I Read the Book
- Beginning My Studies
- Beginners
- To the States
- On Journeys Through the States
- To a Certain Cantatrice
- Me Imperturbe
- Savantism
- The Ship Starting
- I Hear America Singing
- What Place Is Besieged?
- Still Though the One I Sing
- Shut Not Your Doors
- Poets to Come
- To You
- Thou Reader
BOOK II
BOOK III
BOOK IV. 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
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
- O Hymen! O Hymenee!
- I Am He That Aches with Love
- Native Moments
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
- Facing West from California's Shores
- As Adam Early in the Morning
BOOK V. CALAMUS
- In Paths Untrodden
- Scented Herbage of My Breast
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
- For You, O Democracy
- These I Singing in Spring
- 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
- When I Persue the Conquer'd Fame
- We Two Boys Together Clinging
- A Promise to California
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
- No Labor-Saving Machine
- A Glimpse
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand
- Earth, My Likeness
- I Dream'd in a Dream
- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
- To the East and to the West
- Sometimes with One I Love
- To a Western Boy
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!
- Among the Multitude
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
- That Shadow My Likeness
- 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
- Song of the Universal
- 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
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
- 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
- A Boston Ballad [1854]
- Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
- A Hand-Mirror
- Gods
- Germs
- Thoughts
- When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
- Perfections
- O Me! O Life!
- To a President
- I Sit and Look Out
- To Rich Givers
- The Dalliance of the Eagles
- Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
- A Farm Picture
- A Child's Amaze
- The Runner
- Beautiful Women
- Mother and Babe
- Thought
- Visor'd
- Thought
- Gliding O'er all
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
- Thought
- To Old Age
- Locations and Times
- Offerings
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
BOOK XXI. DRUM-TAPS
- First O Songs for a Prelude
- Eighteen Sixty-One
- Beat! Beat! Drums!
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
- 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
- An Army Corps on the March
- 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 Daybreak Gray and Dim
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
- Not the Pilot
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
- The Wound-Dresser
- Long, Too Long America
- 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
- Race of Veterans
- World Take Good Notice
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
- Look Down Fair Moon
- Reconciliation
- How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
- Delicate Cluster
- To a Certain Civilian
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
- Adieu to a Soldier
- Turn O Libertad
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod
BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
- O Captain! My Captain!
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865]
- This Dust Was Once the Man
BOOK XXIII
BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
- As Consequent, Etc.
- 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
- Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
- Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
- 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
- What Am I After All
- Kosmos
- Others May Praise What They Like
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
- Tests
- The Torch
- O Star of France [1870-71]
- The Ox-Tamer
- An Old Man's Thought of School
- Wandering at Morn
- Italian Music in Dakota
- With All Thy Gifts
- My Picture-Gallery
- The Prairie States
BOOK XXV
BOOK XXVI
BOOK XXVII
BOOK XXVIII
BOOK XXIX
BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
- Darest Thou Now O Soul
- Whispers of Heavenly Death
- Chanting the Square Deific
- Of Him I Love Day and Night
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
- Assurances
- Quicksand Years
- That Music Always Round Me
- What Ship Puzzled at Sea
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- O Living Always, Always Dying
- To One Shortly to Die
- Night on the Prairies
- Thought
- The Last Invocation
- As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
- Pensive and Faltering
BOOK XXXI
BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
- 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
- By Broad Potomac's Shore
- From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876]
- Old War-Dreams
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
- What Best I See in Thee
- Spirit That Form'd This Scene
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
- A Clear Midnight
BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING
- As the Time Draws Nigh
- 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
- The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
- As They Draw to a Close
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
- The Untold Want
- Portals
- These Carols
- Now Finale to the Shore
- So Long!
BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY
- Mannahatta
- Paumanok
- From Montauk Point
- To Those Who've Fail'd
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
- The Bravest Soldiers
- A Font of Type
- As I Sit Writing Here
- My Canary Bird
- Queries to My Seventieth Year
- The Wallabout Martyrs
- The First Dandelion
- America
- Memories
- To-Day and Thee
- After the Dazzle of Day
- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
- Out of May's Shows Selected
- Halcyon Days
FANCIES AT NAVESINK
- The Pilot in the Mist
- Had I the Choice
- You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
- Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
- And Yet Not You Alone
- Proudly the Flood Comes In
- By That Long Scan of Waves
- Then Last Of All
- 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
- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
- Old Salt Kossabone
- The Dead Tenor
- Continuities
- Yonnondio
- Life
- "Going Somewhere"
- Small the Theme of My Chant
- True Conquerors
- The United States to Old World Critics
- The Calming Thought of All
- Thanks in Old Age
- Life and Death
- The Voice of the Rain
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
- While Not the Past Forgetting
- The Dying Veteran
- Stronger Lessons
- A Prairie Sunset
- Twenty Years
- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
- Twilight
- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
- The Dead Emperor
- As the Greek's Signal Flame
- The Dismantled Ship
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
- An Evening Lull
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks
- After the Supper and Talk
BOOK XXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
- Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
- Lingering Last Drops
- Good-Bye My Fancy
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
- MY 71st Year
- Apparitions
- The Pallid Wreath
- An Ended Day
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's
- To the Pending Year
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
- Long, Long Hence
- Bravo, Paris Exposition!
- Interpolation Sounds
- To the Sun-Set Breeze
- Old Chants
- A Christmas Greeting
- Sounds of the Winter
- A Twilight Song
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came
- Osceola
- A Voice from Death
- A Persian Lesson
- The Commonplace
- "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"
- Mirages
- L. of G.'s Purport
- The Unexpress'd
- Grand Is the Seen
- Unseen Buds
- Good-Bye My Fancy!
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