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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"........................ |
— |
"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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