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Leaves of grass.

  
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CONTENTS.
  
INSCRIPTION.

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[book]
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STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.
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WALT WHITMAN.
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CHILDREN OF ADAM.
  
FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.
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[poem]
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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC.
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A WOMAN WAITS FOR ME.
  
SPONTANEOUS ME
  
ONE HOUR TO MADNESS AND JOY
  
WE TWO — HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.
  
NATIVE MOMENTS.
  
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
  
FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORES.
  
AGES AND AGES, RETURNING AT INTERVALS.
  
O HYMEN! O HYMENEE.
  
I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH LOVE.
  
AS ADAM, EARLY IN THE MORNING.
  
EXCELSIOR.
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CALAMUS.
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SALUT AU MONDE!
  
WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED?
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
BEGINNERS.
  
TESTS.
  
PERFECTIONS.
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SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.
  
WITH ANTECEDENTS.
  
SAVANTISM.
  
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
  
TO A FOIL'D REVOLTER OR REVOLTRESS.
  
TO GET BETIMES IN BOSTON TOWN.
  
TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE.
  
TO A PUPIL.
  
TO RICH GIVERS.
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A WORD OUT OF THE SEA.
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A LEAF OF FACES.
  
STRONGER LESSONS.
  
EUROPE, The 72d and 73d Years of These States.
  
THOUGHT.
  
THE RUNNER.
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TO THE SAYERS OF WORDS.
  
LONGINGS FOR HOME.
  
TO A PRESIDENT.
  
WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION.
  
TO OTHER LANDS.
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SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.
  
TO THE STATES, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad.
  
TO A CERTAIN CANTATRICE.
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TO WORKINGMEN.
  
DEBRIS.
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
AMERICAN FEUILLAGE.
  
MANNAHATTA.
  
To You.
  
FRANCE, The 18th Year of These States.
  
A HAND-MIRROR.
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THOUGHTS.
  
TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED.
  
TO OLD AGE.
  
TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE.
  
TO YOU.
  
UNNAMED LANDS.
  
KOSMOS.
  
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
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SAYS.
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DESPAIRING CRIES.
  
PICTURE.
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POEMS OF JOY.
  
RESPONDEZ!
  
THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE.
  
LEAFLETS.
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
VISOR'D.
  
NOT THE PILOT.
  
AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS'D ME.
  
PICTURE.
  
GREAT ARE THE MYTHS.
  
NOW LIST TO MY MORNING'S ROMANZA.
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BURIAL.
  
THIS COMPOST!
  
I HEAR AMERICA SINGING.
  
Manhattan's Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering.
  
I WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE.
  
THE INDICATIONS.
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
ME IMPERTURBE.
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SLEEP-CHASINGS.
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ELEMENTAL DRIFTS.
  
MIRACLES.
  
YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS.
  
MEDIUMS.
  
NOW LIFT ME CLOSE.
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WALT WHITMAN'S DRUM -TAPS. New-York. 1865.
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SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS. (SINCE THE PRECEDING CAME FROM THE PRESS.) WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR-YARD BLOOM'D. AND OTHER PIECES.WASHINGTON. 1865-6.
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LEAVES OF GRASS. SONGS BEFORE PARTING.

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1  ABOARD, at the ship's helm,
A young steersman, steering with care.
2  A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,
An ocean-bell — O a warning bell, rock'd by the waves.
3  O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-     reefs ringing,
Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-     place.
4  For, as on the alert, O steersman, you mind the      bell's admonition,
The bows turn, — the freighted ship, tacking, speeds      away under her gray sails,
The beautiful and noble ship, with all her precious      wealth, speeds away gaily and safe.
5  But O the ship, the immortal ship! O ship aboard      the ship!
O ship of the body — ship of the soul — voyaging, voy-     aging, voyaging.
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