University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
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)

collapse section 
[section]
expand section 
INSCRIPTIONS.
expand section 
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.
expand section 
SONG OF MYSELF.
expand section 
CHILDREN OF ADAM.
expand section 
CALAMUS.
expand section 
SALUT AU MONDE!
expand section 
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.
expand section 
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
expand section 
SONG OF THE ANSWERER.
  
OUR OLD FEUILLAGE.
  
A SONG OF JOYS.
expand section 
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.
expand section 
SONG OF THE EXPOSITION.
expand section 
SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE.
expand section 
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS.
expand section 
A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH.
  
YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT.
expand section 
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
expand section 
A BROADWAY PAGEANT.
expand section 
SEA-DRIFT.
expand section 
BY THE ROADSIDE.
collapse section 
DRUM-TAPS.
  
FIRST O SONGS FOR A PRELUDE.
  
EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE.
  
BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
  
FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD.
collapse section 
SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK.
  
Poet.
  
Pennant.
  
Child.
  
Father.
  
Poet.
  
Child.
  
Father.
  
Banner and Pennant.
  
Poet.
  
Banner and Pennant.
  
Child.
  
Father.
  
Banner.
  
Poet.
  
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS.
  
VIRGINIA—THE WEST.
  
CITY OF SHIPS.
expand section 
THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.
  
CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD.
  
BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.
  
AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH.
  
BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME.
  
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER.
  
VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT.
  
A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST, AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN.
  
A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM.
  
AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS.
  
NOT THE PILOT.
  
YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME.
expand section 
THE WOUND-DRESSER.
  
LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA.
expand section 
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN.
  
DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS.
  
OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE.
  
I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY.
  
THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION.
  
ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS.
  
NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME.
  
RACE OF VETERANS.
  
WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE.
  
O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.
  
LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON.
  
RECONCILIATION.
  
HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE.
  
AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO.
  
DELICATE CLUSTER.
  
TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN.
  
LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS.
  
SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE.
  
ADIEU TO A SOLDIER.
  
TURN O LIBERTAD.
  
TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD.
expand section 
MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
expand section 
BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE.
  
REVERSALS.
expand section 
AUTUMN RIVULETS.
expand section 
PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM.
expand section 
PASSAGE TO INDIA.
  
PRAYER OF COLUMBUS.
expand section 
THE SLEEPERS.
  
TRANSPOSITIONS.
expand section 
TO THINK OF TIME.
expand section 
WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH.
expand section 
THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD.
  
A PAUMANOK PICTURE.
expand section 
FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.
expand section 
SONGS OF PARTING.
expand section 
ANNEX TO PRECEDING PAGES. Sands at Seventy.
expand section 
2D ANNEX. Good-Bye my Fancy.

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section Leaves of Grass :[1891]
next section

Father.

Child of mine you fill me with anguish,
To be that pennant would be too fearful,
Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
It is to gain nothing, but risk and defy every thing,
Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
previous section Leaves of Grass :[1891]
next section