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LEAVES OF GRASS.
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1 — Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.
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2 — Poem of Women.
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3 — Poem of Salutation.
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4 — Poem of The Daily Work of The Workmen and Workwomen of These States.
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5 — Broad-Axe Poem.
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6 — Poem of a Few Greatnesses.
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7 — Poem of The Body.
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8 — Poem of Many In One.
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9 — Poem of Wonder at The Resurrection of The Wheat.
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10 — Poem of You, Whoever You Are.
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11 — Sun-Down Poem.
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12 — Poem of The Road.
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13 — Poem of Procreation.
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14 — Poem of The Poet.
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15 — Clef Poem.
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16 — Poem of The Dead Young Men of Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States
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17 — Poem of The Heart of The Son of Manhattan Island.
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18 — Poem of The Last Explanation of Prudence.
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19 — Poem of The Singers, and of The Words of Poems.
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20 — Faith Poem.
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21 — Liberty Poem for Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Australia, Cuba, and The Archipelogoes of the Sea.
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22 — Poem of Apparitions in Boston, The 78th Year of These States.
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23 — Poem of Remembrances for A Girl or A Boy of These States.
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24 — Poem of Perfect Miracles.
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25 — Poem of The Child That Went Forth, and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever
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26 — Night Poem.
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27 — Poem of Faces.
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28 — Bunch Poem.
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29 — Lesson Poem.
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30 — Poem of The Propositions of Nakedness.
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31 — Poem of The Sayers of The Words of The Earth.
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32 — Burial Poem.
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LEAVES-DROPPINGS.
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Correspondence.
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LETTER TO WALT WHITMAN.
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LETTER TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
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Opinions. 1855-6.
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From the London Weekly Dispatch. (London, England.) LEAVES OF GRASS. By Walt Whitman. Horsell, Oxford Street.
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From the Brooklyn Daily Times. LEAVES OF GRASS. A volume of Poems, just published.
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From the Christian Spiritualist. LEAVES OF GRASS.
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From the American Phrenological Journal. AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET.
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From the Critic. (London, England.) LEAVES OF GRASS. New York, 1855. London: Horsell.
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From the Examiner. (London, England.) LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York.
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From the London Leader. TRANSATLANTIC LATTER-DAY POETRY.
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From the Boston Intelligencer, May 8d, 1856 LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York, 1855.

  
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20 — Faith Poem.

I NEED no assurances — I am a man who is      pre-occupied of his own soul;
I do not doubt that whatever I know at a given      time, there waits for me more which I do not      
I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside      the hands and face I am cognizant of, are      now looking faces I am not cognizant of —      calm and actual faces;
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the      world is latent in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt there are realizations I have      no idea of, waiting for me through time      and through the universes — also upon this      
I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the uni-     verses are limitless — in vain I try to think      how limitless;
I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of      orbs, play their swift sports through the air
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     on purpose — and that I shall one day be      eligible to do as much as they, and more than      
I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities,      insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds,      rejected refuse, than I have supposed;
I do not doubt there is more in myself than I have      supposed — and more in all men and women       — and more in my poems than I have      
I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and      on, millions of years;
I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and      exteriors have their exteriors — and that the      eye-sight has another eye-sight, and the hear-     ing another hearing, and the voice another      
I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths      of young men are provided for — and that the      deaths of young women, and the deaths of      little children, are provided for;
I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter      what the horrors of them — no matter whose      wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone      down — are provided for, to the minutest      
I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig-     nance, are provided for;
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I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the      remainder of the earth, politics, freedom,      degradations, are carefully provided for;
I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen,      any where, at any time, is provided for, in      the inherences of things.
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