Introduction | |
Song of Myself | p. 3 |
A Song for Occupations | p. 68 |
To Think of Time | p. 77 |
The Sleepers | p. 84 |
I Sing the Body Electric | p. 94 |
Faces | p. 103 |
There Was a Child Went Forth | p. 108 |
Who Learns My Lesson Complete? | p. 111 |
Unfolded Out of the Folds | p. 113 |
Song of the Broad-Axe | p. 114 |
To You | p. 126 |
This Compost | p. 129 |
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | p. 132 |
Song of the Open Road | p. 139 |
A Woman Waits for Me | p. 151 |
To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire | p. 153 |
Spontaneous Me | p. 155 |
A Song of the Rolling Earth | p. 158 |
Starting from Paumanok | p. 165 |
From Pent-up Aching Rivers | p. 179 |
Me Imperturbe | p. 182 |
I Hear America Singing | p. 183 |
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life | p. 184 |
You Felons on Trial in Courts | p. 188 |
The World below the Brine | p. 189 |
I Sit and Look Out | p. 190 |
All Is Truth | p. 191 |
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | p. 192 |
Native Moments | p. 199 |
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City | p. 200 |
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City [draft version] | p. 201 |
Facing West from California's Shores | p. 202 |
As Adam Early in the Morning | p. 203 |
Live Oak, with Moss | p. 204 |
Not Heat Flames up and Consumes | p. 204 |
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | p. 204 |
When I Heard at the Close of the Day | p. 205 |
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful | p. 206 |
Calamus 8: "Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me" | p. 206 |
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? | p. 207 |
Recorders Ages Hence! | p. 207 |
Calamus 9: "Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted" | p. 208 |
I Dreamed in a Dream | p. 209 |
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come | p. 209 |
Earth! My Likeness | p. 209 |
To a Western Boy | p. 210 |
In Paths Untrodden | p. 211 |
Scented Herbage of My Breast | p. 211 |
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand | p. 213 |
For You O Democracy | p. 215 |
These I Singing in Spring | p. 215 |
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances | p. 217 |
The Base of All Metaphysis [added 1871] | p. 218 |
Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me? | p. 218 |
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone | p. 219 |
Of Him I Love Day and Night | p. 219 |
City of Orgies | p. 220 |
To a Stranger | p. 221 |
I Hear It Was Charged against Me | p. 221 |
We Two Boys Together Clinging | p. 221 |
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me | p. 222 |
A Glimpse | p. 222 |
Sometimes with One I Love | p. 222 |
Among the Multitude | p. 223 |
That Shadow My Likeness | p. 223 |
Full of Life Now | p. 223 |
To Him That Was Crucified | p. 225 |
To a Common Prostitute | p. 226 |
To You | p. 227 |
Mannahatta | p. 228 |
A Hand-Mirror | p. 230 |
Visor'd | p. 231 |
As if a Phantom Caress'd Me | p. 232 |
So Long! | p. 233 |
Shut Not Your Doors | p. 237 |
Beat! Beat! Drums! | p. 237 |
City of Ships | p. 238 |
Cavalry Crossing a Ford | p. 239 |
Bivouac on a Mountain Side | p. 239 |
An Army Corps on the March [1865-66] | p. 240 |
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame | p. 240 |
Come Up from the Fields Father | p. 241 |
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night | p. 242 |
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown | p. 244 |
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim | p. 245 |
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods | p. 246 |
The Wound-Dresser | p. 246 |
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | p. 249 |
A Farm Picture | p. 250 |
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun | p. 250 |
To a Certain Civilian | p. 252 |
Years of the Modern | p. 252 |
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice | p. 254 |
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado [1865-66] | p. 255 |
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | p. 255 |
I Saw Old General at Bay | p. 256 |
Look Down Fair Moon | p. 256 |
Reconciliation [1865-66] | p. 257 |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd [1865-66] | p. 257 |
O Captain! My Captain! [1865-66] | p. 267 |
Old War-Dreams [1865-66] | p. 267 |
Chanting the Square Deific [1865-66] | p. 268 |
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ [1865-66] | p. 270 |
One's Self I Sing | p. 271 |
The Runner | p. 272 |
When I Read the Book | p. 273 |
Passage to India | p. 274 |
Proud Music of the Storm | p. 285 |
A Noiseless Patient Spider | p. 292 |
The Last Invocation | p. 293 |
On the Beach at Night | p. 294 |
Sparkles from the Wheel | p. 296 |
Gods | p. 297 |
Joy, Shipmate, Joy! | p. 298 |
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors | p. 299 |
The Mystic Trumpeter | p. 300 |
Prayer of Columbus | p. 304 |
To a Locomotive in Winter | p. 307 |
The Ox-Tamer | p. 309 |
The Dalliance of the Eagles | p. 310 |
A Clear Midnight | p. 311 |
As I Sit Writing Here | p. 312 |
Broadway | p. 313 |
Unseen Buds | p. 314 |
Good-bye My Fancy! | p. 315 |
"The Child's Champion" | p. 319 |
Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 | p. 330 |
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Leaves of Grass, 1856 | p. 352 |
Preface to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," 1872 | p. 363 |
Preface to the Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass, 1876 | p. 368 |
"A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," 1888 | p. 378 |
Democratic Vistas | p. 395 |
From Specimen Days | p. 463 |
"Slang in America" | p. 557 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 563 |
Index of Titles and First Lines | p. 565 |
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