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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)

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INSCRIPTIONS.
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STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.
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SONG OF MYSELF.
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CHILDREN OF ADAM.
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CALAMUS.
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SALUT AU MONDE!
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SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.
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CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
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SONG OF THE ANSWERER.
  
OUR OLD FEUILLAGE.
  
A SONG OF JOYS.
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SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.
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SONG OF THE EXPOSITION.
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SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE.
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A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS.
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A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH.
  
YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT.
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BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
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A BROADWAY PAGEANT.
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SEA-DRIFT.
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BY THE ROADSIDE.
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DRUM-TAPS.
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MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
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BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE.
  
REVERSALS.
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AUTUMN RIVULETS.
  
AS CONSEQUENT, Etc.
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THE RETURN OF THE HEROES.
  
THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH.
  
OLD IRELAND.
  
THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE.
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THIS COMPOST.
  
TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE.
  
UNNAMED LANDS.
  
SONG OF PRUDENCE.
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THE SINGER IN THE PRISON.
  
WARBLE FOR LILAC-TIME.
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OUTLINES FOR A TOMB.
  
OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK.
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VOCALISM.
  
TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED.
  
YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS.
  
LAWS FOR CREATIONS.
  
TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE.
  
I WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE.
  
THOUGHT.
  
MIRACLES.
  
SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL.
  
TO A PUPIL.
  
UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS.
  
WHAT AM I AFTER ALL.
  
KOSMOS.
  
OTHERS MAY PRAISE WHAT THEY LIKE.
  
WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?
  
TESTS.
  
THE TORCH.
  
O STAR OF FRANCE.
  
THE OX-TAMER.
  
AN OLD MAN'S THOUGHT OF SCHOOL.
  
WANDERING AT MORN.
  
ITALIAN MUSIC IN DAKOTA.
  
WITH ALL THY GIFTS.
  
MY PICTURE-GALLERY.
  
THE PRAIRIE STATES.
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PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA.
  
PRAYER OF COLUMBUS.
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THE SLEEPERS.
  
TRANSPOSITIONS.
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TO THINK OF TIME.
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WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH.
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THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD.
  
A PAUMANOK PICTURE.
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FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.
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SONGS OF PARTING.
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ANNEX TO PRECEDING PAGES. Sands at Seventy.
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2D ANNEX. Good-Bye my Fancy.

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TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE.

Be composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,
Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
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My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,
And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
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