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FROM THE PAGES OF LEAVES OF GRASS

Title Page

WALT WHITMAN

THE WORLD OF WALT WHITMAN AND LEAVES OF GRASS

Introduction

Leaves of Grass - Brooklyn, New York : 1855.

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION

[PREFACE]

[Song of Myself]

[A Song for Occupations]

[To Think of Time]

[The Sleepers]

[I Sing the Body Electric]

[Faces]

[Song of the Answerer]

[Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States]

[A Boston Ballad]

[There Was a Child Went Forth]

[Who Learns My Lesson Complete]

[Great Are the Myths]

Leaves of Grass

INTRODUCTION - TO “DEATH-BED” EDITION

INSCRIPTIONS

ONE‘S-SELF I SING

AS I PONDER’D IN SILENCE

IN CABIN’D SHIPS AT SEA

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

STARTING FROM PAUMANOK

SONG OF MYSELF

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

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 PERUSE 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

SALUT AU MONDE!

SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD

CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY

SONG OF THE ANSWERER

OUR OLD FEUILLAGE

A SONG OF JOYS

SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE

SONG OF THE EXPOSITION

SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE

A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS

A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH

YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT

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)

A BROADWAY PAGEANT

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

BY THE ROADSIDE

A BOSTON BALLAD (1854)

EUROPE, THE 72D AND 73D YEARS OF THESE STATES

WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN’D ASTRONOMER

THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES

HAST NEVER COME TO THEE AN HOUR

TO THE STATES, TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD

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

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

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

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

ADIEU TO A SOLDIER

TURN O LIBERTAD

TO THE LEAVEN’D SOIL THEY TROD

MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM‘D

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

HUSH’D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY

THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN

BY BLUE ONTARIO’S SHORE

REVERSALS

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 LANDS

SONG OF PRUDENCE

THE SINGER IN THE PRISON

WARBLE FOR LILAC-TIME

OUTLINES FOR A TOMB

OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK

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

PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM

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’D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING

PENSIVE AND FALTERING

THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD

A PAUMANOK PICTURE

FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT

THOU ORB ALOFT FULL-DAZZLING

FACES

THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER

TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER

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 CAÑONS

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

SONGS OF PARTING

AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH

YEARS OF THE MODERN

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