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Leaves of Grass :[1891]

Including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy...2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

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INSCRIPTIONS.
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STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.
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SONG OF MYSELF.
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CHILDREN OF ADAM.
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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.
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SALUT AU MONDE!
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SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.
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CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
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SONG OF THE ANSWERER.
  
OUR OLD FEUILLAGE.
  
A SONG OF JOYS.
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SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.
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SONG OF THE EXPOSITION.
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SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE.
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A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS.
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A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH.
  
YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT.
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BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
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A BROADWAY PAGEANT.
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SEA-DRIFT.
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BY THE ROADSIDE.
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DRUM-TAPS.
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MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
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BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE.
  
REVERSALS.
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AUTUMN RIVULETS.
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PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA.
  
PRAYER OF COLUMBUS.
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THE SLEEPERS.
  
TRANSPOSITIONS.
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TO THINK OF TIME.
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WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH.
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THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD.
  
A PAUMANOK PICTURE.
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FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.
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SONGS OF PARTING.
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ANNEX TO PRECEDING PAGES. Sands at Seventy.
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2D ANNEX. Good-Bye my Fancy.

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ARE YOU THE NEW PERSON DRAWN TOWARD ME?

Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
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