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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.

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SONGS BEFORE PARTING.

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