Leaves of Grass

About this eBook

Author

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Credits

G. Fuhrman and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American poetry -- 19th century

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Text

eBook-No.

1322

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322

Release Date

May 1, 1998

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LEAVES OF GRASS — By Walt Whitman — Contents
2. 2.BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
3. 3.One’s-Self I Sing
4. 4.As I Ponder’d in Silence
5. 5.In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
6. 6.To Foreign Lands
7. 7.To a Historian
8. 8.To Thee Old Cause
9. 9.Eidolons
10. 10.For Him I Sing
11. 11.When I Read the Book
12. 12.Beginning My Studies
13. 13.Beginners
14. 14.To the States
15. 15.On Journeys Through the States
16. 16.To a Certain Cantatrice
17. 17.Me Imperturbe
18. 18.Savantism
19. 19.The Ship Starting
20. 20.I Hear America Singing
21. 21.What Place Is Besieged?
22. 22.Still Though the One I Sing
23. 23.Shut Not Your Doors
24. 24.Poets to Come
25. 25.To You
26. 26.Thou Reader
27. 27.BOOK II
28. 28.BOOK III
29. 29.BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
30. 30.From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
31. 31.I Sing the Body Electric
32. 32.A Woman Waits for Me
33. 33.Spontaneous Me
34. 34.One Hour to Madness and Joy
35. 35.Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
36. 36.Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
37. 37.We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
38. 38.O Hymen! O Hymenee!
39. 39.I Am He That Aches with Love
40. 40.Native Moments
41. 41.Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
42. 42.I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
43. 43.Facing West from California’s Shores
44. 44.As Adam Early in the Morning
45. 45.BOOK V. CALAMUS
46. 46.Scented Herbage of My Breast
47. 47.Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
48. 48.For You, O Democracy
49. 49.These I Singing in Spring
50. 50.Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
51. 51.Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
52. 52.The Base of All Metaphysics
53. 53.Recorders Ages Hence
54. 54.When I Heard at the Close of the Day
55. 55.Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
56. 56.Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
57. 57.Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
58. 58.Trickle Drops
59. 59.City of Orgies
60. 60.Behold This Swarthy Face
61. 61.I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
62. 62.To a Stranger
63. 63.This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
64. 64.I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
65. 65.The Prairie-Grass Dividing
66. 66.When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
67. 67.We Two Boys Together Clinging
68. 68.A Promise to California
69. 69.Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
70. 70.No Labor-Saving Machine
71. 71.A Glimpse
72. 72.A Leaf for Hand in Hand
73. 73.Earth, My Likeness
74. 74.I Dream’d in a Dream
75. 75.What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
76. 76.To the East and to the West
77. 77.Sometimes with One I Love
78. 78.To a Western Boy
79. 79.Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
80. 80.Among the Multitude
81. 81.O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
82. 82.That Shadow My Likeness
83. 83.Full of Life Now
84. 84.BOOK VI
85. 85.BOOK VII
86. 86.BOOK VIII
87. 87.BOOK IX
88. 88.BOOK X
89. 89.BOOK XI
90. 90.BOOK XII
91. 91.BOOK XIII
92. 92.BOOK XIV
93. 93.BOOK XV
94. 94.BOOK XVI
95. 95.Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
96. 96.BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE
97. 97.Pioneers! O Pioneers!
98. 98.To You
99. 99.France [the 18th Year of these States
100. 100.Myself and Mine
101. 101.Year of Meteors [1859-60
102. 102.With Antecedents
103. 103.BOOK XVIII
104. 104.BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT
105. 105.As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
106. 106.Tears
107. 107.To the Man-of-War-Bird
108. 108.Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
109. 109.On the Beach at Night
110. 110.The World below the Brine
111. 111.On the Beach at Night Alone
112. 112.Song for All Seas, All Ships
113. 113.Patroling Barnegat
114. 114.After the Sea-Ship
115. 115.BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE
116. 116.Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
117. 117.A Hand-Mirror
118. 118.Gods
119. 119.Germs
120. 120.Thoughts
121. 121.Perfections
122. 122.O Me! O Life!
123. 123.To a President
124. 124.I Sit and Look Out
125. 125.To Rich Givers
126. 126.The Dalliance of the Eagles
127. 127.Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
128. 128.A Farm Picture
129. 129.A Child’s Amaze
130. 130.The Runner
131. 131.Beautiful Women
132. 132.Mother and Babe
133. 133.Thought
134. 134.Visor’d
135. 135.Thought
136. 136.Gliding O’er all
137. 137.Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
138. 138.Thought
139. 139.To Old Age
140. 140.Locations and Times
141. 141.Offerings
142. 142.To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
143. 143.BOOK XXI. DRUM-TAPS
144. 144.Eighteen Sixty-One
145. 145.Beat! Beat! Drums!
146. 146.From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
147. 147.Song of the Banner at Daybreak
148. 148.Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
149. 149.Virginia—The West
150. 150.City of Ships
151. 151.The Centenarian’s Story
152. 152.Cavalry Crossing a Ford
153. 153.Bivouac on a Mountain Side
154. 154.An Army Corps on the March
155. 155.By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
156. 156.Come Up from the Fields Father
157. 157.Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
158. 158.A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
159. 159.A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
160. 160.As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
161. 161.Not the Pilot
162. 162.Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
163. 163.The Wound-Dresser
164. 164.Long, Too Long America
165. 165.Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
166. 166.Dirge for Two Veterans
167. 167.Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
168. 168.I Saw Old General at Bay
169. 169.The Artilleryman’s Vision
170. 170.Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
171. 171.Not Youth Pertains to Me
172. 172.Race of Veterans
173. 173.World Take Good Notice
174. 174.O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
175. 175.Look Down Fair Moon
176. 176.Reconciliation
177. 177.How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
178. 178.As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
179. 179.Delicate Cluster
180. 180.To a Certain Civilian
181. 181.Lo, Victress on the Peaks
182. 182.Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
183. 183.Adieu to a Soldier
184. 184.Turn O Libertad
185. 185.To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
186. 186.BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
187. 187.O Captain! My Captain!
188. 188.Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865
189. 189.This Dust Was Once the Man
190. 190.BOOK XXIII
191. 191.Reversals
192. 192.BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
193. 193.The Return of the Heroes
194. 194.There Was a Child Went Forth
195. 195.Old Ireland
196. 196.The City Dead-House
197. 197.This Compost
198. 198.To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
199. 199.Unnamed Land
200. 200.Song of Prudence
201. 201.The Singer in the Prison
202. 202.Warble for Lilac-Time
203. 203.Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
204. 204.Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
205. 205.Vocalism
206. 206.To Him That Was Crucified
207. 207.You Felons on Trial in Courts
208. 208.Laws for Creations
209. 209.To a Common Prostitute
210. 210.I Was Looking a Long While
211. 211.Thought
212. 212.Miracles
213. 213.Sparkles from the Wheel
214. 214.To a Pupil
215. 215.Unfolded out of the Folds
216. 216.What Am I After All
217. 217.Kosmos
218. 218.Others May Praise What They Like
219. 219.Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
220. 220.Tests
221. 221.The Torch
222. 222.O Star of France [1870-71]
223. 223.The Ox-Tamer
224. 224.Wandering at Morn
225. 225.With All Thy Gifts
226. 226.My Picture-Gallery
227. 227.The Prairie States
228. 228.BOOK XXV
229. 229.BOOK XXVI
230. 230.BOOK XXVII
231. 231.BOOK XXVIII
232. 232.Transpositions
233. 233.BOOK XXIX
234. 234.BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
235. 235.Whispers of Heavenly Death
236. 236.Chanting the Square Deific
237. 237.Of Him I Love Day and Night
238. 238.Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
239. 239.As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
240. 240.Assurances
241. 241.Quicksand Years
242. 242.That Music Always Round Me
243. 243.What Ship Puzzled at Sea
244. 244.A Noiseless Patient Spider
245. 245.O Living Always, Always Dying
246. 246.To One Shortly to Die
247. 247.Night on the Prairies
248. 248.Thought
249. 249.The Last Invocation
250. 250.As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
251. 251.Pensive and Faltering
252. 252.BOOK XXXI
253. 253.A Paumanok Picture
254. 254.BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
255. 255.Faces
256. 256.The Mystic Trumpeter
257. 257.To a Locomotive in Winter
258. 258.O Magnet-South
259. 259.Mannahatta
260. 260.All Is Truth
261. 261.A Riddle Song
262. 262.Excelsior
263. 263.Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
264. 264.Thoughts
265. 265.Mediums
266. 266.Weave in, My Hardy Life
267. 267.Spain, 1873-74
268. 268.By Broad Potomac’s Shore
269. 269.From Far Dakota’s Canyons [June 25, 1876]
270. 270.Old War-Dreams
271. 271.Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
272. 272.As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
273. 273.A Clear Midnight
274. 274.BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING
275. 275.Years of the Modern
276. 276.Ashes of Soldiers
277. 277.Thoughts
278. 278.Song at Sunset
279. 279.As at Thy Portals Also Death
280. 280.My Legacy
281. 281.Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
282. 282.Camps of Green
283. 283.The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
284. 284.As They Draw to a Close
285. 285.Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
286. 286.The Untold Want
287. 287.Portals
288. 288.These Carols
289. 289.Now Finale to the Shore
290. 290.So Long!
291. 291.BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY
292. 292.Paumanok
293. 293.From Montauk Point
294. 294.To Those Who’ve Fail’d
295. 295.A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
296. 296.The Bravest Soldiers
297. 297.A Font of Type
298. 298.As I Sit Writing Here
299. 299.My Canary Bird
300. 300.Queries to My Seventieth Year
301. 301.The Wallabout Martyrs
302. 302.The First Dandelion
303. 303.America
304. 304.Memories
305. 305.To-Day and Thee
306. 306.After the Dazzle of Day
307. 307.Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
308. 308.Out of May’s Shows Selected
309. 309.Halcyon Days
310. 310.Election Day, November, 1884
311. 311.With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
312. 312.Death of General Grant
313. 313.Red Jacket (From Aloft)
314. 314.Washington’s Monument February, 1885
315. 315.Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
316. 316.Broadway
317. 317.To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
318. 318.Old Salt Kossabone
319. 319.The Dead Tenor
320. 320.Continuities
321. 321.Yonnondio
322. 322.Life
323. 323.“Going Somewhere”
324. 324.Small the Theme of My Chant
325. 325.True Conquerors
326. 326.The United States to Old World Critics
327. 327.The Calming Thought of All
328. 328.Thanks in Old Age
329. 329.Life and Death
330. 330.The Voice of the Rain
331. 331.Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
332. 332.While Not the Past Forgetting
333. 333.The Dying Veteran
334. 334.Stronger Lessons
335. 335.A Prairie Sunset
336. 336.Twenty Years
337. 337.Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
338. 338.Twilight
339. 339.You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
340. 340.Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
341. 341.The Dead Emperor
342. 342.As the Greek’s Signal Flame
343. 343.The Dismantled Ship
344. 344.Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
345. 345.An Evening Lull
346. 346.Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
347. 347.After the Supper and Talk
348. 348.BOOKXXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
349. 349.Lingering Last Drops
350. 350.Good-Bye My Fancy
351. 351.On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
352. 352.MY 71st Year
353. 353.Apparitions
354. 354.The Pallid Wreath
355. 355.An Ended Day
356. 356.Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
357. 357.To the Pending Year
358. 358.Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
359. 359.Long, Long Hence
360. 360.Bravo, Paris Exposition!
361. 361.Interpolation Sounds
362. 362.To the Sun-Set Breeze
363. 363.Old Chants
364. 364.A Christmas Greeting
365. 365.Sounds of the Winter
366. 366.A Twilight Song
367. 367.When the Full-Grown Poet Came
368. 368.Osceola
369. 369.A Voice from Death
370. 370.A Persian Lesson
371. 371.The Commonplace
372. 372.“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
373. 373.Mirages
374. 374.L. of G.’s Purport
375. 375.The Unexpress’d
376. 376.Grand Is the Seen
377. 377.Unseen Buds
378. 378.Good-Bye My Fancy!

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