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CONTENTS.
| Inscription....................... | 5 |
| Starting from Paumanok............ | 8 |
| Walt Whitman...................... | 23 |
| CHILDREN OF ADAM | |
| To the Garden, the World.......... | 93 |
| From Pent-Up Aching Rivers........ | — |
| I Sing the Body Electric.......... | 93 |
| A Woman Waits for Me.............. | 108 |
| Spontaneous Me.................... | 110 |
| One Hour to Madness and Joy....... | 112 |
| We Two, how long we were fool'd... | 114 |
| Native Moments.................... | 115 |
| Once I Pass'd through a Populous City | — |
| Facing West from California's Shores | 116 |
| Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals | — |
| O Hymen! O Hymence!............... | 117 |
| I am He that Aches with Love...... | — |
| As Adam, Early in the Morning..... | — |
| Excelsior......................... | 118 |
| CALAMUS. | |
| In Paths Untrodden................ | 119 |
| Scented Herbage of my Breast...... | 120 |
| Whoever you are Holding Me now in Hand | 112 |
| These, I, Singing in Spring....... | 124 |
| A Song............................ | 125 |
| Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast only | 126 |
| Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances | 127 |
| Recorders Ages Hence.............. | 128 |
| When I Heard at the Close of the day | — |
| Are you the New Person Drawn Toward me? | 129 |
| Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone. | 130 |
| Not Heat Flames up and Consumers.. | 131 |
| Trickle, Drops.................... | — |
| Of Him I love Day and Night....... | 132 |
| City of Orgies.................... | 133 |
| Behold this Swarthy Face.......... | — |
| I saw in Louisiana a Live wing.... | 134 |
| That Music Always Round Me........ | — |
| To a Stranger..................... | 135 |
| This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful | 136 |
| I Hear it was Charged Against Me.. | 136 |
| The Prairie-Grass Dividing........ | 137 |
| We Two Boys Together Clinging..... | — |
| O Living Always-Always Dying...... | 138 |
| When I Peruse the Conquer'd....... | — |
| Fame.............................. | — |
| A Glimpse......................... | — |
| A Promise to California........... | 139 |
| Here, Sailor !.................... | — |
| Here the Frailest Leaves of Me.... | 140 |
| What Think you, I take my Pen in Hand | — |
| No Labor-Saving Machine........... | — |
| I Dream'd in a Dream.............. | 141 |
| To the East and to the West....... | — |
| Earth, my Likeness................ | — |
| A Leaf for Hand in Hand........... | 142 |
| Fast Anchor'd, Eternal............ | — |
| Sometimes, with One I Love........ | — |
| That Shadow, my Likeness.......... | 143 |
| Among the Multitude............... | — |
| To a Western Boy.................. | — |
| O You whom I often and Silently Come | 144 |
| Full of Life, Now................ | . — |
| Salut au Monde.................... | 145 |
| What Place is Besieged !.......... | 158 |
| LEAVES OF GRASS. | |
| "There was a child went forth".... | 159 |
| "Myself and mine gymnastic ever".. | 161 |
| "Who learns my lesson complete!".. | 163 |
| "Whoever you are, I fear," &c..... | 165 |
| Beginners......................... | 163 |
| Tests............................. | — |
| Perfections....................... | — |
| Song of the Broad-Axe............. | 169 |
| With Antecedents.................. | 182 |
| Savantism......................... | 184 |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry........... | 185 |
| To a Foil'd Revolter or Revoltress | 193 |
| To get Betimes in Boston Town..... | 195 |
| To a Common Prostitute............ | 197 |
| To a Pupil........................ | 198 |
| To Rich Givers.................... | — |
| A Word Out of the Sea............. | 199 |
| A Leaf of Faces................... | 207 |
| Stronger Lessons.................. | 211 |
| Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States...................... |
212 |
| Thought........................... | 214 |
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| The Runner...................... | 214 |
| To the Sayers of Words.......... | 215 |
| Longings for Home............... | 222 |
| To a President.................. | 234 |
| Walt Whitman's Caution.......... | — |
| To Other Lands.................. | — |
| Song of the Open Road........... | 225 |
| To the States, to Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad |
238 |
| To a Certain Cantatrice......... | — |
| To Workingmen................... | 239 |
| Debris.......................... | 243 |
| LEAVES OF GRASS. | |
| "O hastening light!"............ | 249 |
| "Tears! tears! tears!".......... | — |
| "Aboard at a ship's helm,"...... | 250 |
| American Feuillage.............. | 251 |
| Mannahatta...................... | 257 |
| To You.......................... | 258 |
| France, the 18th Year of These States.......................... |
259 |
| A Hand-Mirror................... | 260 |
| THOUGHTS. | |
| "Of the visages of things"...... | 261 |
| "Of waters, forests, hills"..... | — |
| "Of persons arrived at high positions,"..................... |
262 |
| "Of ownership,"................. | — |
| "As I sit with others, at great feast"........................ |
— |
| "Of what I write from myself"... | 263 |
| "Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness" | — |
| To Him that was Crucified....... | 264 |
| To Old Age...................... | — |
| To One Shortly to Die........... | 263 |
| To You.......................... | — |
| Unnamed Lands................... | 266 |
| Kosmos.......................... | 267 |
| When I read the Book............ | 268 |
| Says............................ | 269 |
| Despairing Cries................ | 270 |
| Picture......................... | — |
| Poems of Joy.................... | 271 |
| Respondes!...................... | 280 |
| The City Dead-House............. | 284 |
| Leaflets........................ | — |
| LEAVES OF GRASS. | |
| "Think of the Soul"............. | 285 |
| "Unfolded out of the folds of the woman"..................... |
286 |
| "Night on the prairies"......... | 287 |
| "The world below the brine"..... | 288 |
| "I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world".......... |
289 |
| Visor'd......................... | — |
| Not the Pilot................... | 290 |
| As if a Phantom Caress'd Me..... | — |
| Great are the Myths............. | 291 |
| Morning Romania................. | 294 |
| Burial.......................... | 296 |
| This Compost!................... | 306 |
| I hear America Singing.......... | 308 |
| Manhattan's streets I saunter'd. | 309 |
| I was Looking a Long While...... | 312 |
| The Indications................. | 313 |
| LEAVES OF GRASS. | |
| "On the beach at night alone"... | 315 |
| "To oratists — to male and female"........................ |
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| "Laws for Creations"............ | 317 |
| "Poets to come!"................ | — |
| Me Imperturbe................... | 318 |
| Sleep-Chasings.................. | 319 |
| Elemental Drifts................ | 331 |
| Miracles........................ | 335 |
| You Felons on Trial in Courts... | 336 |
| Mediums......................... | 337 |
| Now Lift me Close............... | 338 |
DRUM-TAPS.
See Table of Contents prefixed.
SONGS BEFORE PARTING.
See Table of Contents prefixed.
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