Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. Epigraph
4. Leaves of Grass
   1. Inscriptions
      1. One’s-Self I Sing
      2. As I Ponder’d in Silence
      3. In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
      4. To Foreign Lands
      5. To a Historian
      6. To Thee Old Cause
      7. Eidólons
      8. For Him I Sing
      9. When I Read the Book
      10. Beginning My Studies
      11. Beginners
      12. To the States
      13. On Journeys Through the States
      14. To a Certain Cantatrice
      15. Me Imperturbe
      16. Savantism
      17. The Ship Starting
      18. I Hear America Singing
      19. What Place Is Besieged?
      20. Still Though the One I Sing
      21. Shut Not Your Doors
      22. Poets to Come
      23. To You
      24. Thou Reader
   2. Starting from Paumanok
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      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
      14. 14
      15. 15
      16. 16
      17. 17
      18. 18
      19. 19
   3. Song of Myself
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
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      10. 10
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      14. 14
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      30. 30
      31. 31
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      33. 33
      34. 34
      35. 35
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      37. 37
      38. 38
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      40. 40
      41. 41
      42. 42
      43. 43
      44. 44
      45. 45
      46. 46
      47. 47
      48. 48
      49. 49
      50. 50
      51. 51
      52. 52
   4. Children of Adam
      1. To the Garden the World
      2. From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
      3. I Sing the Body Electric
         1. 1
         2. 2
         3. 3
         4. 4
         5. 5
         6. 6
         7. 7
         8. 8
         9. 9
      4. A Woman Waits for Me
      5. Spontaneous Me
      6. One Hour to Madness and Joy
      7. Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
      8. Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
      9. We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
      10. O Hymen! O Hymenee!
      11. I Am He That Aches with Love
      12. Native Moments
      13. Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
      14. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
      15. Facing West from California’s Shores
      16. As Adam Early in the Morning
   5. Calamus
      1. In Paths Untrodden
      2. Scented Herbage of My Breast
      3. Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
      4. For You O Democracy
      5. These I Singing in Spring
      6. Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
      7. Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
      8. The Base of All Metaphysics
      9. Recorders Ages Hence
      10. When I Heard at the Close of the Day
      11. Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
      12. Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
      13. Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
      14. Trickle Drops
      15. City of Orgies
      16. Behold This Swarthy Face
      17. I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
      18. To a Stranger
      19. This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
      20. I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
      21. The Prairie-Grass Dividing
      22. When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
      23. We Two Boys Together Clinging
      24. A Promise to California
      25. Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
      26. No Labor-Saving Machine
      27. A Glimpse
      28. A Leaf for Hand in Hand
      29. Earth, My Likeness
      30. I Dream’d in a Dream
      31. What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
      32. To the East and to the West
      33. Sometimes with One I Love
      34. To a Western Boy
      35. Fast-Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
      36. Among the Multitude
      37. O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
      38. That Shadow My Likeness
      39. Full of Life Now
   6. Salut au Monde!
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      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
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      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
   7. Song of the Open Road
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      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
      14. 14
      15. 15
   8. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
   9. Song of the Answerer
      1. 1
      2. 2
   10. Our Old Feuillage
   11. A Song of Joys
   12. Song of the Broad-Axe
       1. 1
       2. 2
       3. 3
       4. 4
       5. 5
       6. 6
       7. 7
       8. 8
       9. 9
       10. 10
       11. 11
       12. 12
   13. Song of the Exposition
       1. 1
       2. 2
       3. 3
       4. 4
       5. 5
       6. 6
       7. 7
       8. 8
       9. 9
   14. Song of the Redwood-Tree
       1. 1
       2. 2
       3. 3
   15. A Song for Occupations
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       2. 2
       3. 3
       4. 4
       5. 5
       6. 6
   16. A Song of the Rolling Earth
       1. 1
       2. 2
       3. 3
       4. 4
   17. Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
5. Birds of Passage
   1. Song of the Universal
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
   2. Pioneers! O Pioneers!
   3. To You
   4. France
   5. Myself and Mine
   6. Year of Meteors
   7. With Antecedents
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
6. A Broadway Pageant
   1. 1
   2. 2
   3. 3
7. Sea-Drift
   1. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
   2. As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
   3. Tears
   4. To the Man-of-War-Bird
   5. Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
   6. On the Beach at Night
   7. The World Below the Brine
   8. On the Beach at Night Alone
   9. Song for All Seas, All Ships
      1. 1
      2. 2
   10. Patroling Barnegat
   11. After the Sea-Ship
8. By the Roadside
   1. A Boston Ballad
   2. Europe
   3. A Hand-Mirror
   4. Gods
   5. Germs
   6. Thoughts
   7. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
   8. Perfections
   9. O Me! O Life!
   10. To a President
   11. I Sit and Look Out
   12. To Rich Givers
   13. The Dalliance of the Eagles
   14. Roaming in Thought
   15. A Farm Picture
   16. A Child’s Amaze
   17. The Runner
   18. Beautiful Women
   19. Mother and Babe
   20. Thought
   21. Visor’d
   22. Thought
   23. Gliding O’er All
   24. Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
   25. Thought
   26. To Old Age
   27. Locations and Times
   28. Offerings
   29. To the States
9. Drum-Taps
   1. First O Songs for a Prelude
   2. Eighteen Sixty-One
   3. Beat! Beat! Drums!
   4. From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
   5. Song of the Banner at Daybreak
   6. Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
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      2. 2
      3. 3
   7. Virginia—The West
   8. City of Ships
   9. The Centenarian’s Story
   10. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
   11. Bivouac on a Mountain Side
   12. An Army Corps on the March
   13. By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
   14. Come Up from the Fields Father
   15. Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
   16. A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
   17. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
   18. As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
   19. Not the Pilot
   20. Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
   21. The Wound-Dresser
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       2. 2
       3. 3
       4. 4
   22. Long, Too Long America
   23. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
       1. 1
       2. 2
   24. Dirge for Two Veterans
   25. Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
   26. I Saw Old General at Bay
   27. The Artilleryman’s Vision
   28. Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
   29. Not Youth Pertains to Me
   30. Race of Veterans
   31. World Take Good Notice
   32. O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
   33. Look Down Fair Moon
   34. Reconciliation
   35. How Solemn as One by One
   36. As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
   37. Delicate Cluster
   38. To a Certain Civilian
   39. Lo, Victress on the Peaks
   40. Spirit Whose Work Is Done
   41. Adieu to a Soldier
   42. Turn O Libertad
   43. To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
10. Memories of President Lincoln
    1. When Lilacs Last in