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The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1855 & 1892) + Old Age Echoes + Uncollected and Rejected Poems
Table of Contents
The Poetry Collections
LEAVES OF GRASS, 1855
Preface
Song of Myself (1855)
A Song for Occupations (1855)
To Think of Time (1855)
The Sleepers (1855)
I Sing the Body Electric (1855)
Faces (1855)
Song of the Answerer (1855)
Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States (1855)
A Boston Ballad (1855)
There Was a Child Went Forth (1855)
Who Learns My Lesson Complete (1855)
Great Are the Myths (1855)
LEAVES OF GRASS, 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
Starting from Paumanok
BOOK III
Song of Myself
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 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
BOOK VI
Salut au Monde!
BOOK VII
Song of the Open Road
BOOK VIII
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
BOOK IX
Song of the Answerer
BOOK X
Our Old Feuillage
BOOK XI
A Song of Joys
BOOK XII
Song of the Broad-Axe
BOOK XIII
Song of the Exposition
BOOK XIV
Song of the Redwood-Tree
BOOK XV
A Song for Occupations
BOOK XVI
A Song of the Rolling Earth
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
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
A Broadway Pageant
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
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
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
Reversals
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
Wandering at Morn
With All Thy Gifts
My Picture-Gallery
The Prairie States
BOOK XXV
Proud Music of the Storm
BOOK XXVI
Passage to India
BOOK XXVII
Prayer of Columbus
BOOK XXVIII
The Sleepers
Transpositions
BOOK XXIX
To Think of Time
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
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
A Paumanok Picture
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
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
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!
OLD AGE ECHOES
TO SOAR IN FREEDOM AND IN FULLNESS OF POWER
THEN SHALL PERCEIVE
THE FEW DROPS KNOWN
ONE THOUGHT EVER AT THE FORE
WHILE BEHIND ALL FIRM AND ERECT
A KISS TO THE BRIDE
NAY, TELL ME NOT TO-DAY THE PUBLISH’D SHAME
SUPPLEMENT HOURS
OF MANY A SMUTCH’D DEED REMINISCENT
TO BE AT ALL
DEATH’S VALLEY
ON THE SAME PICTURE
A THOUGHT OF COLUMBUS
UNCOLLECTED AND REJECTED POEMS
AMBITION
BLOOD-MONEY
RESURGEMUS
GREAT ARE THE MYTHS
POEM OF REMEMBRANCE FOR A GIRL OR A BOY OF THESE STATES
THINK OF THE SOUL
RESPONDEZ!
APOSTROPH
O SUN OF REAL PEACE
SO FAR AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END
IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS
STATES!
LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE
HOURS CONTINUING LONG, SORE AND HEAVY-HEARTED
WHO IS NOW READING THIS?
TO YOU
OF THE VISAGES OF THINGS
SAYS
DEBRIS
THOUGHT
SOLID, IRONICAL, ROLLING ORB
BATHED IN WAR’S PERFUME
NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME
THIS DAY, O SOUL
LESSONS
ONE SONG, AMERICA, BEFORE I GO
AFTER AN INTERVAL
THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP
TWO RIVULETS
OR FROM THAT SEA OF TIME
FROM MY LAST YEARS
IN FORMER SONGS
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