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Leaves of grass (1872)

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

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Leaves of Grass.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
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Starting from Paumanok.
  
THE SHIP STARTING.
  
UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS.
  
TO YOU.
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WALT WHITMAN.
  
Laws for Creations.
  
VISOR'D.
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CHILDREN OF ADAM.
  
To Him that was Crucified.
  
Perfections.
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CALAMUS.
  
In Paths Untrodden.
  
Scented Herbage of My Breast.
  
Whoever you are, Holding me now in Hand.
  
These I, Singing in Spring.
  
A Song.
  
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.
  
We Two Boys Together Clinging.
  
A Promise to California.
  
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me.
  
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame.
  
What Think You I take my Pen in Hand?
  
A Glimpse.
  
No Labor-Saving Machine.
  
A LEAF FOR HAND IN HAND.
  
TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST.
  
Earth! My Likeness!
  
I DREAM'D IN A DREAM.
  
FAST ANCHOR'D, ETERNAL, O LOVE!
  
Sometimes with One I Love.
  
That Shadow, my Likeness.
  
AMONG THE MULTITUDE.
  
TO A WESTERN BOY.
  
O you whom I Often and Silently Come.
  
Full of Life, Now.
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SALUT AU MONDE!
  
A Child's Amaze.
  
The Runner.
  
Beautiful Women.
  
Mother and Babe.
  
Thought.
  
American Feuillage.
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Song of the Broad-Axe.
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Song of the Open Road.
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Leaves of Grass.
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
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WITH ANTECEDENTS.
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THE ANSWERER.
  
The City Dead-House.
  
A Farm Picture.
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Carol of Occupations.
  
THOUGHTS.
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THE SLEEPERS.
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CAROL OF WORDS.
  
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats.
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Leaves of Grass.
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A Broadway Pageant.
  
SUGGESTIONS.
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Great are the Myths.
  
Thought.
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DRUM-TAPS.
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Leaves of Grass.
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Marches now the War is Over.
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Leaves of Grass.
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Bathed in War's Perfume.
  
A Hand-Mirror.
  
Germs.
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Leaves of Grass.
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Songs of Insurrection.
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Leaves of Grass.
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SONGS OF PARTING.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA.

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AMONG THE MULTITUDE.

1

Among the men and women, the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am;
Some are baffled—But that one is not—that one knows me.

2

Ah, lover and perfect equal!
I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections;
And I, when I meet you, mean to discover you by the like in you.
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