- 1Specimen Days
- 2Answer to an Insisting Friend
- 3Genealogy — Van Velsor and Whitman
- 4The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries
- 5The Maternal Homestead
- 6Two Old Family Interiors
- 7Paumanok, and My Life on It as Child and Young Man
- 8My First Reading — Lafayette
- 9Printing Office — Old Brooklyn
- 10Growth — Health — Work
- 11My Passion for Ferries
- 12Broadway Sights
- 13Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers
- 14Plays and Operas Too
- 15Through Eight Years
- 16Sources of Character — Results — 1860
- 17Opening of the Secession War
- 18National Uprising and Volunteering
- 19Contemptuous Feeling
- 20Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861
- 21The Stupor Passes — Something Else Begins
- 22Down at the Front
- 23After First Fredericksburg
- 24Back to Washington
- 25Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field
- 26Hospital Scenes and Persons
- 27Patent-Office Hospital
- 28The White House by Moonlight
- 29An Army Hospital Ward
- 30A Connecticut Case
- 31Two Brooklyn Boys
- 32A Secesh Brave
- 33The Wounded From Chancellorsville
- 34A Night Battle Over a Week Since
- 35Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier
- 36Some Specimen Cases
- 37My Preparations for Visits
- 38Ambulance Processions
- 39Bad Wounds — The Young
- 40The Most Inspiriting of All War’s Shows
- 41Battle of Gettysburg
- 42A Cavalry Camp
- 43A New York Soldier
- 44Home-Made Music
- 45Abraham Lincoln
- 46Heated Term
- 47Soldiers and Talks
- 48Death of a Wisconsin Officer
- 49Hospitals Ensemble
- 50A Silent Night Ramble
- 51Spiritual Characters Among the Soldiers
- 52Cattle Droves About Washington
- 53Hospital Perplexity
- 54Down at the Front
- 55Paying the Bounties
- 56Rumors, Changes, etc.
- 57Virginia
- 58Summer of 1864
- 59A New Army Organization Fit for America
- 60Death of a Hero
- 61Hospital Scenes — Incidents
- 62A Yankee Soldier
- 63Union Prisoners South
- 64Deserters
- 65A Glimpse of War’s Hell-Scenes
- 66Gifts — Money — Discrimination
- 67Items From My Note Books
- 68A Case From Second Bull Run
- 69Army Surgeons — Aid Deficiencies
- 70The Blue Everywhere
- 71A Model Hospital
- 72Boys in the Army
- 73Burial of a Lady Nurse
- 74Female Nurses for Soldiers
- 75Southern Escapees
- 76The Capitol by Gas-Light
- 77The Inauguration
- 78Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War
- 79The Weather — Does It Sympathize With These Times?
- 80Inauguration Ball
- 81Scene at the Capitol
- 82A Yankee Antique
- 83Wounds and Diseases
- 84Death of President Lincoln
- 85Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation — Its Sudden Stoppage
- 86No Good Portrait of Lincoln
- 87Releas’d Union Prisoners From South
- 88Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
- 89The Armies Returning
- 90The Grand Review
- 91Western Soldiers
- 92A Soldier on Lincoln
- 93Two Brothers, One South, One North
- 94Some Sad Cases Yet
- 95Calhoun’s Real Monument
- 96Hospitals Closing
- 97Typical Soldiers
- 98“Convulsiveness”
- 99Three Years Summ’d Up
- 100The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up
- 101The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
- 102An Interregnum Paragraph
- 103New Themes Entered Upon
- 104Entering a Long Farm-Lane
- 105To the Spring and Brook
- 106An Early Summer Reveille
- 107Birds Migrating at Midnight
- 108Bumble-Bees
- 109Cedar-Apples
- 110Summer Sights and Indolencies
- 111Sundown Perfume — Quailnotes — The Hermit-Thrush
- 112A July After-Noon by the Pond
- 113Locusts and Katy-Dids
- 114The Lesson of a Tree
- 115Autumn Side-Bits
- 116The Sky — Days and Nights — Happiness
- 117Colors — A Contrast
- 118November 8, ’76
- 119Crows and Crows
- 120A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach
- 121Sea-Shore Fancies
- 122In Memory of Thomas Paine
- 123A Two Hours Ice-Sail
- 124Spring Overtures — Recreations
- 125One of the Human Kinks
- 126An Afternoon Scene
- 127The Gates Opening
- 128The Common Earth, the Soil
- 129Birds and Birds and Birds
- 130Full-Starr’d Nights
- 131Mulleins and Mulleins
- 132Distant Sounds
- 133A Sun-Bath-Nakedness
- 134The Oaks and I
- 135A Quintette
- 136The First Frost — Mems
- 137Three Young Men’s Deaths
- 138February Days
- 139A Meadow Lark
- 140Sundown Lights
- 141Thoughts Under an Oak — A Dream
- 142Clover and Hay Perfume
- 143An Unknown
- 144Bird-Whistling
- 145Horse-Mint
- 146Three of Us
- 147Death of William Cullen Bryant
- 148Jaunt Up the Hudson
- 149Happiness and Raspberries
- 150A Specimen Tramp Family
- 151Manhattan From the Bay
- 152Human and Heroic New York
- 153Hours for the Soul
- 154Straw-Color’d and Other Psyches
- 155A Night Remembrance
- 156Wild Flowers
- 157A Civility Too Long Neglected
- 158Delaware River — Days and Nights
- 159Scenes on Ferry and River — Last Winter’s Nights
- 160The First Spring Day on Chestnut Street
- 161Up the Hudson to Ulster County
- 162Days at J. B.’s Turf-Fires — Spring Songs
- 163Meeting a Hermit
- 164An Ulster County Waterfall
- 165Walter Dumont and His Medal
- 166Hudson River Sights
- 167Two City Areas, Certain Hours
- 168Central Park Walks and Talks
- 169A Fine Afternoon, 4 to 6
- 170Departing of the Big Steamers
- 171Two Hours on the Minnesota
- 172Mature Summer Days and Nights
- 173Exposition Building — New City Hall — River Trip
- 174Swallows on the River
- 175Begin a Long Jaunt West
- 176In the Sleeper
- 177Missouri State
- 178Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas
- 179On to Denver — A Frontier Incident
- 180An Hour on Kenosha Summit
- 181An Egotistical “Find”
- 182New Senses: New Joys
- 183Steam-Power, Telegraphs, etc
- 184America’s Back-Bone
- 185The Parks
- 186Art Features
- 187Denver Impressions
- 188I Turn South and Then East Again
- 189Unfulfilled Wants — The Arkansas River
- 190A Silent Little Follower-the Coreopsis
- 191The Prairies and Great Plains in Poetry
- 192The Spanish Peaks — Evening on the Plains
- 193America’s Characteristic Landscape
- 194Earth’s Most Important Stream
- 195Prairie Analogies — The Tree Question
- 196Mississippi Valley Literature
- 197An Interviewer’s Item
- 198The Women of the West
- 199The Silent General
- 200President Hayes’s Speeches
- 201St. Louis Memoranda
- 202Nights on the Mississippi
- 203Upon Our Own Land
- 204Edgar Poe’s Significance
- 205Beethoven’s Septette
- 206A Hint of Wild Nature
- 207Loafing in the Woods
- 208A Contralto Voice
- 209Seeing Niagara to Advantage
- 210Jaunting to Canada
- 211Sunday With the Insane
- 212Reminiscence of Elias Hicks
- 213Grand Native Growth
- 214A Zollverein Between the U.S. and Canada
- 215The St. Lawrence Line
- 216The Savage Saguenay
- 217Capes Eternity and Trinity
- 218Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha Bay
- 219The Inhabitants — Good Living
- 220Death of Thomas Carlyle
- 221Carlyle From American Points of View
- 222A Couple of Old Friends — A Coleridge Bit
- 223A Week’s Visit to Boston
- 224The Boston of To-Day
- 225My Tribute to Four Poets
- 226Millet’s Pictures Last Items
- 227Birds — And a Caution
- 228Samples of My Common-Place Book
- 229My Native Sand and Salt Once More
- 230Hot Weather New York
- 231Custer’s Last Rally
- 232Some Old Acquaintances — Memories
- 233A Discovery of Old Age
- 234A Visit, at the Last, to R. W. Emerson
- 235Other Concord Notations
- 236Boston Common — More of Emerson
- 237An Ossianic Night — Dearest Friends
- 238Only a New Ferry-Boat
- 239Death of Longfellow
- 240Starting Newspapers
- 241The Great Unrest of Which We Are Part
- 242By Emerson’s Grave
- 243At Present Writing — Personal
- 244After Trying a Certain Book
- 245Final Confessions — Literary Tests
- 246Nature and Democracy — Morality
- 247Collect
- 248Democratic Vistas
- 249Origins of Attempted Secession
- 250Prefaces to “Leaves of Grass”
- 251Preface, 1872 to as a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother With
- 252Preface, 1876 to the Two-Volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass
- 253W. W.
- 254Poetry To-Day in America
- 255A Memorandum at a Venture
- 256Death of Abraham Lincoln Lecture
- 257Two Letters
- 258II — To — — Dresden, Saxony
- 259Notes Left Over
- 260Emerson’s Books, (the Shadows of Them)
- 261Ventures, on an Old Theme
- 262British Literature
- 263Darwinism — (Then Furthermore)
- 264“Society”
- 265Democracy in the New World
- 266Foundation Stages — Then Others
- 267General Suffrage, Elections, etc.
- 268Who Gets the Plunder?
- 269Friendship, (the Real Article)
- 270Lacks and Wants Yet
- 271Rulers Strictly Out of the Masses
- 272Monuments — The Past and Present
- 273Little or Nothing New, After All
- 274A Lincoln Reminiscence
- 275Freedom
- 276Book-Classes — America’s Literature
- 277Our Real Culmination
- 278An American Problem
- 279The Last Collective Compaction
- 280Appendix — Pieces in Early Youth
- 281Paumanok
- 282One Wicked Impulse
- 283The Last Loyalist
- 284Wild Frank’s Return
- 285The Boy Lover
- 286The Child and the Profligate
- 287Lingave’s Temptation
- 288Little Jane
- 289Dumb Kate
- 290Talk to an Art-Union
- 291Blood-Money — I
- 292II
- 293Wounded in the House of Friends
- 294Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight
- 295November Boughs — Our Eminent Visitors — Past, Present and Future
- 296The Bible as Poetry
- 297Father Taylor (and Oratory)
- 298The Spanish Element in Our Nationality
- 299Walt Whitman
- 300A Thought on Shakspere
- 301Robert Burns as Poet and Person
- 302A Word About Tennyson
- 303Slang in America
- 304An Indian Bureau Reminiscence
- 305Some Diary Notes at Random
- 306Country Days and Nights
- 307Central Park Notes
- 308Plate Glass Notes
- 309Some War Memoranda
- 310Washington Street Scenes
- 311The 195th Pennsylvania
- 312Left-Hand Writing by Soldiers
- 313Central Virginia in ’64
- 314Paying the 1st U. S. C. T.
- 315Five Thousand Poems
- 316The Old Bowery
- 317Notes to Late English Books
- 318Additional Note, 1887
- 319Preface to “Democratic Vistas” With Other Papers — English Edition
- 320Abraham Lincoln
- 321New Orleans in 1848
- 322Small Memoranda
- 323Note to a Friend
- 324Written Impromptu in an Album
- 325The Place Gratitude Fills in a Fine Character
- 326Last of the War Cases — Memorandized at the Time, Washington, 1865-’66
- 327Endnotes (Such as They Are) Founded on
- 328George Fox (and Shakspere)
- 329Good-Bye My Fancy
- 330Old Poets
- 331Ship Ahoy
- 332For Queen Victoria’s Birthday
- 333American National Literature
- 334Gathering the Corn
- 335A Death-Bouquet — Pick’d Noontime, Early January, 1890
- 336Some Laggards Yet
- 337Shakspere for America
- 338“Unassail’d Renown”
- 339Inscription for a Little Book on Giordano Bruno
- 340Splinters
- 341Health, (Old Style)
- 342Gay-Heartedness
- 343As in a Swoon — L — Of G.
- 344After the Argument · For Us Two, Reader Dear — Memoranda
- 345A World’s Show
- 346New York — The Bay — The Old Name
- 347A Sick Spell
- 348To Be Present Only
- 349“Intestinal Agitation”
- 350“Walt Whitman’s Last ‘Public’”
- 351Ingersoll’s Speech
- 352Feeling Fairly
- 353Old Brooklyn Days
- 354Two Questions
- 355Preface
- 356Walt Whitman’s Last
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