Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass Leaves of Grass PHILADELPHIA, REES WELSH & CO., No. 23 South Ninth Street. 1882. Copyright 1881 By WALT WHITMAN All rights reserved SHERMAN & CO., PRINTERS, PHILADELPHIA. CONTENTS. INSCRIPTIONS. PAGE One's-Self I Sing 9 As I Ponder'd in Silence 9 In Cabin'd Ships at Sea 10 To Foreign Lands 11 To A Historian 11 To Thee Old Cause 11 Eidólons 12 For Him I Sing 14 When I Read the Book 14 Beginning My Studies 14 Beginners 15 To The States 15 On Journeys through The States 15 To a Certain Cantatrice 16 Me Imperturbe 16 Savantism 16 The Ship Starting 16 I Hear America Singing 17 What Place is Besieged? 17 Still though the One I Sing 17 Shut not Your Doors 17 Poets to Come 18 To You 18 Thou Reader 18 Starting from Paumanok 18 Song of Myself 29 CHILDREN OF ADAM. To The Garden the World 79 From Pent-up Aching Rivers 79 I Sing the Body Electric 81 A Woman Waits for Me 88 Spontaneous Me 89 One Hour to Madness and Joy 91 Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 92 Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 92 We Two, How Long We were Fool'd 93 Hymen! O Hymenee! 93 I am He that Aches with Love 93 Native Moments 94 Once I Pass'd through a Populous City 94 I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 94 Facing West from California's Shores 95 As Adam Early in the Morning 95 CALAMUS In Paths Untrodden 95 Scented Herbage of My Breast 96 Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand 97 For You O Democracy 99 These I Singing in Spring 99 Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only 100 Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 101 The Base of All Metaphysics 101 Recorders Ages Hence 102 When I Heard at the Close of the Day 102 Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me? 103 Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 103 Not Heat Flames up and Consumes 104 Trickle Drops 104 City of Orgies 105 Behold This Swarthy Face 105 I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 105 To A Stranger 106 This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 106 I Hear It was Charged against Me 107 The Prairie-Grass (1882) Dividing 107 When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 107 We Two Boys together Clinging 108 A Promise to California 108 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 108 No Labor-Saving Machine 108 A Glimpse 109 A Leaf for Hand in Hand 109 Earth My Likeness 109 I Dream'd in a Dream 109 What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 110 To the East and to the West 110 Sometimes with One I Love 110 To A Western Boy 110 Fast-Anchor'd Eternal O Love 111 Among the Multitude 111 O You whom I Often and Silently Come 111 That Shadow My Likeness 111 Full of Life now 111 Salut au Monde! 112 Song of the Open Road 120 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 129 Song of the Answerer 134 Our Old Feuillage 138 A Song of Joys 142 Song of the Broad-Axe 148 Song of the Exposition 157 Song of the Redwood-Tree 165 A Song for Occupations 169 A Song of the Rolling Earth 176 Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night 180 BIRDS OF PASSAGE. Song of the Universal 181 Pioneers! O Pioneers! 183 To You 186 France the 18th Year of These States 188 Myself and Mine 189 Year of Meteors (1859-60) 190 With Antecedents 191 A Broadway Pageant 193 SEA-DRIFT. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 196 As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life 202 Tears 204 To the Man-of-War-Bird 204 Aboard at a Ship's Helm 205 On the Beach at Night 205 The World Below the Brine 206 On the Beach at Night Alone 207 Song for All Seas, All Ships 207 Patroling Barnegat 208 After the Sea-Ship 209 BY THE ROADSIDE. A Boston Ballad—1854 209 Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States 211 A Hand-Mirror 213 Gods 213 Germs 214 Thoughts 214 When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 214 Perfections 214 O Me! O Life! 215 To a President 215 I Sit and Look Out 215 To Rich Givers 216 The Dalliance of the Eagles 216 Roaming in Thought 216 A Farm Picture 216 A Child's Amaze 217 The Runner 217 Beautiful Women 217 Mother and Babe 217 Thought 217 Visor'd 217 Thought 217 Gliding o'er All 218 Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour 218 Thought 218 To Old Age 218 Locations and Times 218 Offerings 218 To Identify the 16th, 17th or 18th Presidentiad 218 DRUM-TAPS. First O Songs for a Prelude 219 Eighteen Sixty-One 221 Beat! Beat! Drums! 222 From Paumanok Starting I Fly like a Bird 222 Song of the Banner at Daybreak 223 Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 228 Virginia—the West 230 City of Ships 230 The Centenarian's Story 231 Cavalry Crossing a Ford 235 Bivouac on a Mountain Side 235 An Army Corps on the March 236 By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 236 Come Up from the Fields Father 236 Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 238 A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest 239 A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 240 As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 240 Not the Pilot 241 Year that Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 241 The Wound-Dresser 241 Long, too Long America 244 Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 244 Dirge for Two Veterans 246 Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 247 I Saw Old General at Bay 247 The Artilleryman's Vision 248 Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 249 Not Youth Pertains to Me 249 Race of Veterans 250 World Take Good Notice 250 O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 250 Look Down Fair Moon 250 Reconciliation 250 How Solemn as One by One 251 As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 251 Delicate Cluster 252 To A Certain Civilian 252 Lo, Victress on the Peaks 252 Spirit whose Work is Done 253 Adieu to a Soldier 253 Turn O Libertad 254 To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod 254 MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 255 O Captain, My Captain 262 Hush'd be the Camps To-day 263 This Dust was Once the Man 263 By Blue Ontario's Shore 264 Reversals 276 AUTUMN RIVULETS. As Consequent 277 The Return of the Heroes 278 There was a Child Went Forth 282 Old Ireland 284 The City Dead-House 284 This Compost 285 To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire 287 Unnamed Lands 288 Song of Prudence 289 The Singer in the Prison 292 Warble for Lilac-Time 293 Outlines for a Tomb 294 Out from Behind This Mask 296 Vocalism 297 To Him That was Crucified 298 You Felons on Trial in Courts 298 Laws for Creations 299 To A Common Prostitute 299