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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.
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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.
  
MANNAHATTA.
  
PAUMANOK.
  
FROM MONTAUK POINT.
  
TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D.
  
A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE.
  
THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS.
  
A FONT OF TYPE.
  
AS I SIT WRITING HERE.
  
MY CANARY BIRD.
  
QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR.
  
THE WALLABOUT MARTYRS.
  
THE FIRST DANDELION.
  
AMERICA.
  
MEMORIES.
  
TO-DAY AND THEE.
  
AFTER THE DAZZLE OF DAY.
  
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BORN FEB. 12, 1809.
  
OUT OF MAY'S SHOWS SELECTED.
  
HALCYON DAYS.
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FANCIES AT NAVESINK.
  
ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884.
  
WITH HUSKY-HAUGHTY LIPS, O SEA!
  
DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT.
  
RED JACKET (FROM ALOFT.)
  
WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, FEBRUARY, 1885.
  
OF THAT BLITHE THROAT OF THINE.
  
BROADWAY.
  
TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS.
  
OLD SALT KOSSABONE.
  
THE DEAD TENOR.
  
CONTINUITIES.
  
YONNONDIO.
  
LIFE.
  
“GOING SOMEWHERE.”
  
SMALL THE THEME OF MY CHANT.
  
TRUE CONQUERORS.
  
THE UNITED STATES TO OLD WORLD CRITICS.
  
THE CALMING THOUGHT OF ALL.
  
THANKS IN OLD AGE.
  
LIFE AND DEATH.
  
THE VOICE OF THE RAIN.
  
SOON SHALL THE WINTER'S FOIL BE HERE.
  
WHILE NOT THE PAST FORGETTING.
  
THE DYING VETERAN.
  
STRONGER LESSONS.
  
A PRAIRIE SUNSET.
  
TWENTY YEARS.
  
ORANGE BUDS BY MAIL FROM FLORIDA.
  
TWILIGHT.
  
YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME.
  
NOT MEAGRE, LATENT BOUGHS ALONE.
  
THE DEAD EMPEROR.
  
AS THE GREEK'S SIGNAL FLAME.
  
THE DISMANTLED SHIP.
  
NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL.
  
AN EVENING LULL.
  
OLD AGE'S LAMBENT PEAKS.
  
AFTER THE SUPPER AND TALK.
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2D ANNEX. Good-Bye my Fancy.

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THE DISMANTLED SHIP.

In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,
An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done,
After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
Lies rusting, mouldering.
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