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An audacious, sprawling celebration of the self, nature, and the vibrant tapestry of human existence challenges all poetic boundaries. This groundbreaking collection pulses with a sensual, unrestrained energy that embraces both the divine and the wonderfully ordinary. The rhythmic, free-flowing verses weave together the diverse voices of a vast nation, championing radical equality and boundless love. Controversial, passionate, and deeply spiritual, it is a manifesto of freedom that refuses to be contained by tradition. Experience a breathtaking literary revolution that fundamentally altered the landscape of modern poetry.
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Table of contents
1BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
190Reversals
2One’s-Self I Sing
191BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
3As I Ponder’d in Silence
192The Return of the Heroes
4In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
193There Was a Child Went Forth
5To Foreign Lands
194Old Ireland
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6To a Historian
195The City Dead-House
7To Thee Old Cause
196This Compost
8Eidolons
197To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
9For Him I Sing
198Unnamed Land
10When I Read the Book
199Song of Prudence
11Beginning My Studies
200The Singer in the Prison
12Beginners
201Warble for Lilac-Time
13To the States
202Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
14On Journeys Through the States
203Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
15To a Certain Cantatrice
204Vocalism
16Me Imperturbe
205To Him That Was Crucified
17Savantism
206You Felons on Trial in Courts
18The Ship Starting
207Laws for Creations
19I Hear America Singing
208To a Common Prostitute
20What Place Is Besieged?
209I Was Looking a Long While
21Still Though the One I Sing
210Thought
22Shut Not Your Doors
211Miracles
23Poets to Come
212Sparkles from the Wheel
24To You
213To a Pupil
25Thou Reader
214Unfolded out of the Folds
26BOOK II
215What Am I After All
27BOOK III
216Kosmos
28BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
217Others May Praise What They Like
29From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
218Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
30I Sing the Body Electric
219Tests
31A Woman Waits for Me
220The Torch
32Spontaneous Me
221O Star of France [1870-71]
33One Hour to Madness and Joy
222The Ox-Tamer
34Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
223Wandering at Morn
35Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
224With All Thy Gifts
36We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
225My Picture-Gallery
37O Hymen! O Hymenee!
226The Prairie States
38I Am He That Aches with Love
227BOOK XXV
39Native Moments
228BOOK XXVI
40Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
229BOOK XXVII
41I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
230BOOK XXVIII
42Facing West from California’s Shores
231Transpositions
43As Adam Early in the Morning
232BOOK XXIX
44BOOK V. CALAMUS
233BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
45Scented Herbage of My Breast
234Whispers of Heavenly Death
46Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
235Chanting the Square Deific
47For You, O Democracy
236Of Him I Love Day and Night
48These I Singing in Spring
237Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
49Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
238As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
50Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
239Assurances
51The Base of All Metaphysics
240Quicksand Years
52Recorders Ages Hence
241That Music Always Round Me
53When I Heard at the Close of the Day
242What Ship Puzzled at Sea
54Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
243A Noiseless Patient Spider
55Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
244O Living Always, Always Dying
56Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
245To One Shortly to Die
57Trickle Drops
246Night on the Prairies
58City of Orgies
247Thought
59Behold This Swarthy Face
248The Last Invocation
60I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
249As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
61To a Stranger
250Pensive and Faltering
62This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
251BOOK XXXI
63I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
252A Paumanok Picture
64The Prairie-Grass Dividing
253BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
65When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
254Faces
66We Two Boys Together Clinging
255The Mystic Trumpeter
67A Promise to California
256To a Locomotive in Winter
68Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
257O Magnet-South
69No Labor-Saving Machine
258Mannahatta
70A Glimpse
259All Is Truth
71A Leaf for Hand in Hand
260A Riddle Song
72Earth, My Likeness
261Excelsior
73I Dream’d in a Dream
262Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
74What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
263Thoughts
75To the East and to the West
264Mediums
76Sometimes with One I Love
265Weave in, My Hardy Life
77To a Western Boy
266Spain, 1873-74
78Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
267By Broad Potomac’s Shore
79Among the Multitude
268From Far Dakota’s Canyons [June 25, 1876]
80O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
269Old War-Dreams
81That Shadow My Likeness
270Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
82Full of Life Now
271As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
83BOOK VI
272A Clear Midnight
84BOOK VII
273BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING
85BOOK VIII
274Years of the Modern
86BOOK IX
275Ashes of Soldiers
87BOOK X
276Thoughts
88BOOK XI
277Song at Sunset
89BOOK XII
278As at Thy Portals Also Death
90BOOK XIII
279My Legacy
91BOOK XIV
280Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
92BOOK XV
281Camps of Green
93BOOK XVI
282The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
94Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
283As They Draw to a Close
95BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE
284Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
96Pioneers! O Pioneers!
285The Untold Want
97To You
286Portals
98France [the 18th Year of these States
287These Carols
99Myself and Mine
288Now Finale to the Shore
100Year of Meteors [1859-60
289So Long!
101With Antecedents
290BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY
102BOOK XVIII
291Paumanok
103BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT
292From Montauk Point
104As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
293To Those Who’ve Fail’d
105Tears
294A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
106To the Man-of-War-Bird
295The Bravest Soldiers
107Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
296A Font of Type
108On the Beach at Night
297As I Sit Writing Here
109The World below the Brine
298My Canary Bird
110On the Beach at Night Alone
299Queries to My Seventieth Year
111Song for All Seas, All Ships
300The Wallabout Martyrs
112Patroling Barnegat
301The First Dandelion
113After the Sea-Ship
302America
114BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE
303Memories
115Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
304To-Day and Thee
116A Hand-Mirror
305After the Dazzle of Day
117Gods
306Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
118Germs
307Out of May’s Shows Selected
119Thoughts
308Halcyon Days
120Perfections
309Election Day, November, 1884
121O Me! O Life!
310With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
122To a President
311Death of General Grant
123I Sit and Look Out
312Red Jacket (From Aloft)
124To Rich Givers
313Washington’s Monument February, 1885
125The Dalliance of the Eagles
314Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
126Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
315Broadway
127A Farm Picture
316To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
128A Child’s Amaze
317Old Salt Kossabone
129The Runner
318The Dead Tenor
130Beautiful Women
319Continuities
131Mother and Babe
320Yonnondio
132Thought
321Life
133Visor’d
322“Going Somewhere”
134Thought
323Small the Theme of My Chant
135Gliding O’er all
324True Conquerors
136Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
325The United States to Old World Critics
137Thought
326The Calming Thought of All
138To Old Age
327Thanks in Old Age
139Locations and Times
328Life and Death
140Offerings
329The Voice of the Rain
141To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
330Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
142BOOK XXI. DRUM-TAPS
331While Not the Past Forgetting
143Eighteen Sixty-One
332The Dying Veteran
144Beat! Beat! Drums!
333Stronger Lessons
145From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
334A Prairie Sunset
146Song of the Banner at Daybreak
335Twenty Years
147Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
336Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
148Virginia—The West
337Twilight
149City of Ships
338You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
150The Centenarian’s Story
339Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
151Cavalry Crossing a Ford
340The Dead Emperor
152Bivouac on a Mountain Side
341As the Greek’s Signal Flame
153An Army Corps on the March
342The Dismantled Ship
154By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
343Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
155Come Up from the Fields Father
344An Evening Lull
156Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
345Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
157A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
346After the Supper and Talk
158A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
347BOOKXXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
159As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
348Lingering Last Drops
160Not the Pilot
349Good-Bye My Fancy
161Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
350On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
162The Wound-Dresser
351MY 71st Year
163Long, Too Long America
352Apparitions
164Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
353The Pallid Wreath
165Dirge for Two Veterans
354An Ended Day
166Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
355Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
167I Saw Old General at Bay
356To the Pending Year
168The Artilleryman’s Vision
357Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
169Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
358Long, Long Hence
170Not Youth Pertains to Me
359Bravo, Paris Exposition!
171Race of Veterans
360Interpolation Sounds
172World Take Good Notice
361To the Sun-Set Breeze
173O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
362Old Chants
174Look Down Fair Moon
363A Christmas Greeting
175Reconciliation
364Sounds of the Winter
176How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
365A Twilight Song
177As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
366When the Full-Grown Poet Came
178Delicate Cluster
367Osceola
179To a Certain Civilian
368A Voice from Death
180Lo, Victress on the Peaks
369A Persian Lesson
181Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
370The Commonplace
182Adieu to a Soldier
371“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
183Turn O Libertad
372Mirages
184To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
373L. of G.’s Purport
185BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
374The Unexpress’d
186O Captain! My Captain!
375Grand Is the Seen
187Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865
376Unseen Buds
188This Dust Was Once the Man
377Good-Bye My Fancy!
189BOOK XXIII
378IMPRINT | DISCLAIMER
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