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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Book I | Inscriptions
  3. 3As I Ponder’d in Silence
  4. 4In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
  5. 5To Foreign Lands
  6. 6To a Historian
  7. 7To Thee Old Cause
  8. 8Eidolons
  9. 9For Him I Sing
  10. 10When I Read the Book
  11. 11Beginning My Studies
  12. 12Beginners
  13. 13To the States
  14. 14On Journeys Through the States
  15. 15To a Certain Cantatrice
  16. 16Me Imperturbe
  17. 17Savantism
  18. 18The Ship Starting
  19. 19I Hear America Singing
  20. 20What Place Is Besieged?
  21. 21Still Though the One I Sing
  22. 22Shut Not Your Doors
  23. 23Poets to Come
  24. 24To You · Thou Reader — Book II — Starting From Paumanok
  25. 25Book III — Song of Myself
  26. 26Book IV — Children of Adam
  27. 27From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
  28. 28I Sing the Body Electric
  29. 29A Woman Waits for Me
  30. 30Spontaneous Me
  31. 31One Hour to Madness and Joy
  32. 32Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
  33. 33Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
  34. 34We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
  35. 35O Hymen! O Hymenee!
  36. 36I Am He That Aches With Love
  37. 37Native Moments
  38. 38Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
  39. 39I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
  40. 40Facing West From California’s Shores
  41. 41As Adam Early in the Morning
  42. 42Book V — Calamus
  43. 43Scented Herbage of My Breast
  44. 44Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
  45. 45For You, o Democracy
  46. 46These I Singing in Spring
  47. 47Not Heaving From My Ribb’d Breast Only
  48. 48Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
  49. 49The Base of All Metaphysics
  50. 50Recorders Ages Hence
  51. 51When I Heard at the Close of the Day
  52. 52Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
  53. 53Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
  54. 54Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
  55. 55Trickle Drops
  56. 56City of Orgies
  57. 57Behold This Swarthy Face
  58. 58I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
  59. 59To a Stranger
  60. 60This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
  61. 61I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
  62. 62The Prairie-Grass Dividing
  63. 63When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
  64. 64We Two Boys Together Clinging
  65. 65A Promise to California
  66. 66Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
  67. 67No Labor-Saving Machine
  68. 68A Glimpse
  69. 69A Leaf for Hand in Hand
  70. 70Earth, My Likeness
  71. 71I Dream’d in a Dream
  72. 72What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
  73. 73To the East and to the West
  74. 74Sometimes With One I Love
  75. 75To a Western Boy
  76. 76Fast Anchor’d Eternal o Love!
  77. 77Among the Multitude
  78. 78O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
  79. 79That Shadow My Likeness
  80. 80Full of Life Now
  81. 81Book VI — Salut au Monde!
  82. 82Book VII — Song of the Open Road
  83. 83Book VIII — Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
  84. 84Book IX — Song of the Answerer
  85. 85Book X — Our Old Feuillage
  86. 86Book XI — A Song of Joys
  87. 87Book XII — Song of the Broad-Axe
  88. 88Book XIII — Song of the Exposition
  89. 89Book XIV — Song of the Redwood-Tree
  90. 90Book XV — A Song for Occupations
  91. 91Book XVI — A Song of the Rolling Earth
  92. 92Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
  93. 93Book XVII — Birds of Passage
  94. 94Pioneers! O Pioneers!
  95. 95To You
  96. 96France [the 18th Year of These States
  97. 97Myself and Mine
  98. 98Year of Meteors [1859-60
  99. 99With Antecedents
  100. 100Book XVIII — A Broadway Pageant
  101. 101Book XIX — Sea-Drift
  102. 102As I Ebb’d With the Ocean of Life
  103. 103Tears
  104. 104To the Man-of-War-Bird
  105. 105Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
  106. 106On the Beach at Night
  107. 107The World Below the Brine
  108. 108On the Beach at Night Alone
  109. 109Song for All Seas, All Ships
  110. 110Patroling Barnegat
  111. 111After the Sea-Ship
  112. 112Book XX — By the Roadside
  113. 113Europe [the 72d and 73d Years of These States]
  114. 114A Hand-Mirror
  115. 115Gods
  116. 116Germs
  117. 117Thoughts
  118. 118Perfections — O Me! O Life!
  119. 119To a President
  120. 120I Sit and Look Out
  121. 121To Rich Givers
  122. 122The Dalliance of the Eagles
  123. 123Roaming in Thought [After Reading Hegel]
  124. 124A Farm Picture
  125. 125A Child’s Amaze — The Runner
  126. 126Beautiful Women · Mother and Babe — Thought
  127. 127Visor’d — Thought
  128. 128Gliding O’er All — Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
  129. 129Thought
  130. 130To Old Age — Locations and Times
  131. 131Offerings — To the States [to Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Pres…
  132. 132Book XXI — Drum-Taps
  133. 133Eighteen Sixty-One
  134. 134Beat! Beat! Drums!
  135. 135From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
  136. 136Song of the Banner at Daybreak
  137. 137Rise o Days From Your Fathomless Deeps
  138. 138Virginia — The West
  139. 139City of Ships
  140. 140The Centenarian’s Story
  141. 141Cavalry Crossing a Ford
  142. 142Bivouac on a Mountain Side
  143. 143An Army Corps on the March
  144. 144By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
  145. 145Come Up From the Fields Father
  146. 146Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
  147. 147A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
  148. 148A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
  149. 149As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
  150. 150Not the Pilot
  151. 151Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
  152. 152The Wound-Dresser
  153. 153Long, Too Long America
  154. 154Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
  155. 155Dirge for Two Veterans
  156. 156Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
  157. 157I Saw Old General at Bay
  158. 158The Artilleryman’s Vision
  159. 159Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
  160. 160Not Youth Pertains to Me
  161. 161Race of Veterans
  162. 162World Take Good Notice
  163. 163O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
  164. 164Look Down Fair Moon
  165. 165Reconciliation
  166. 166How Solemn as One by One [Washington City, 1865]
  167. 167As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado
  168. 168Delicate Cluster
  169. 169To a Certain Civilian
  170. 170Lo, Victress on the Peaks
  171. 171Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
  172. 172Adieu to a Soldier
  173. 173Turn o Libertad
  174. 174To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
  175. 175Book XXII — Memories of President Lincoln
  176. 176O Captain! My Captain!
  177. 177Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865
  178. 178This Dust Was Once the Man
  179. 179Book XXIII — By Blue Ontario’s Shore
  180. 180Reversals
  181. 181Book XXIV — Autumn Rivulets
  182. 182The Return of the Heroes
  183. 183There Was a Child Went Forth
  184. 184Old Ireland
  185. 185The City Dead-House
  186. 186This Compost
  187. 187To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
  188. 188Unnamed Land
  189. 189Song of Prudence
  190. 190The Singer in the Prison
  191. 191Warble for Lilac-Time
  192. 192Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
  193. 193Out From Behind This Mask [to Confront a Portrait]
  194. 194Vocalism
  195. 195To Him That Was Crucified
  196. 196You Felons on Trial in Courts
  197. 197Laws for Creations
  198. 198To a Common Prostitute
  199. 199I Was Looking a Long While
  200. 200Thought
  201. 201Miracles
  202. 202Sparkles From the Wheel
  203. 203To a Pupil
  204. 204Unfolded Out of the Folds
  205. 205What Am I After All
  206. 206Kosmos
  207. 207Others May Praise What They Like
  208. 208Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
  209. 209Tests
  210. 210The Torch
  211. 211O Star of France [1870-71]
  212. 212The Ox-Tamer
  213. 213Wandering at Morn
  214. 214With All Thy Gifts
  215. 215My Picture-Gallery
  216. 216The Prairie States
  217. 217Book XXV — Proud Music of the Storm
  218. 218Book XXVI — Passage to India
  219. 219Book XXVII — Prayer of Columbus
  220. 220Book XXVIII — The Sleepers
  221. 221Transpositions
  222. 222Book XXIX — To Think of Time
  223. 223Book XXX — Whispers of Heavenly Death
  224. 224Chanting the Square Deific
  225. 225Of Him I Love Day and Night
  226. 226Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
  227. 227As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
  228. 228Assurances
  229. 229Quicksand Years
  230. 230That Music Always Round Me
  231. 231What Ship Puzzled at Sea
  232. 232A Noiseless Patient Spider
  233. 233O Living Always, Always Dying
  234. 234To One Shortly to Die
  235. 235Night on the Prairies
  236. 236Thought
  237. 237The Last Invocation
  238. 238As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
  239. 239Pensive and Faltering — Book XXXI — Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood
  240. 240A Paumanok Picture
  241. 241Book XXXII — From Noon to Starry Night
  242. 242Faces
  243. 243The Mystic Trumpeter
  244. 244To a Locomotive in Winter
  245. 245O Magnet-South
  246. 246Mannahatta
  247. 247All Is Truth
  248. 248A Riddle Song
  249. 249Excelsior
  250. 250Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
  251. 251Thoughts
  252. 252Mediums
  253. 253Weave in, My Hardy Life
  254. 254Spain, 1873-74
  255. 255By Broad Potomac’s Shore
  256. 256From Far Dakota’s Canyons [June 25, 1876]
  257. 257Old War-Dreams
  258. 258Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
  259. 259As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
  260. 260A Clear Midnight
  261. 261Book XXXIII — Songs of Parting
  262. 262Years of the Modern
  263. 263Ashes of Soldiers
  264. 264Thoughts
  265. 265Song at Sunset
  266. 266As at Thy Portals Also Death
  267. 267My Legacy
  268. 268Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
  269. 269Camps of Green
  270. 270The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
  271. 271As They Draw to a Close
  272. 272Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
  273. 273The Untold Want · Portals · These Carols — Now Finale to the Shore
  274. 274So Long!
  275. 275Book XXXIV — Sands at Seventy
  276. 276Paumanok
  277. 277From Montauk Point
  278. 278To Those Who’ve Fail’d
  279. 279A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
  280. 280The Bravest Soldiers — A Font of Type
  281. 281As I Sit Writing Here
  282. 282My Canary Bird
  283. 283Queries to My Seventieth Year
  284. 284The Wallabout Martyrs
  285. 285The First Dandelion
  286. 286America
  287. 287Memories — To-Day and Thee
  288. 288After the Dazzle of Day
  289. 289Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 — Out of May’s Shows Selected
  290. 290Halcyon Days
  291. 291Election Day, November, 1884
  292. 292With Husky-Haughty Lips, o Sea!
  293. 293Death of General Grant
  294. 294Red Jacket (From Aloft)
  295. 295Washington’s Monument February, 1885
  296. 296Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
  297. 297Broadway
  298. 298To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
  299. 299Old Salt Kossabone
  300. 300The Dead Tenor
  301. 301Continuities
  302. 302Yonnondio
  303. 303Life
  304. 304“Going Somewhere”
  305. 305Small the Theme of My Chant
  306. 306True Conquerors
  307. 307The United States to Old World Critics
  308. 308The Calming Thought of All
  309. 309Thanks in Old Age
  310. 310Life and Death — The Voice of the Rain
  311. 311Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
  312. 312While Not the Past Forgetting
  313. 313The Dying Veteran
  314. 314Stronger Lessons
  315. 315A Prairie Sunset
  316. 316Twenty Years
  317. 317Orange Buds by Mail From Florida
  318. 318Twilight — You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
  319. 319Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
  320. 320The Dead Emperor
  321. 321As the Greek’s Signal Flame
  322. 322The Dismantled Ship
  323. 323Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
  324. 324An Evening Lull
  325. 325Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
  326. 326After the Supper and Talk
  327. 327Bookxxxv. Good-Bye My Fancy
  328. 328Lingering Last Drops
  329. 329Good-Bye My Fancy
  330. 330On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
  331. 331My 71st Year
  332. 332Apparitions — The Pallid Wreath
  333. 333An Ended Day — Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
  334. 334To the Pending Year
  335. 335Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
  336. 336Long, Long Hence
  337. 337Bravo, Paris Exposition!
  338. 338Interpolation Sounds
  339. 339To the Sun-Set Breeze
  340. 340Old Chants
  341. 341A Christmas Greeting
  342. 342Sounds of the Winter
  343. 343A Twilight Song
  344. 344When the Full-Grown Poet Came
  345. 345Osceola
  346. 346A Voice From Death
  347. 347A Persian Lesson
  348. 348The Commonplace
  349. 349“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
  350. 350Mirages
  351. 351L — Of G.’s Purport
  352. 352The Unexpress’d
  353. 353Grand Is the Seen
  354. 354Unseen Buds
  355. 355Good-Bye My Fancy!

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