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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
The Text of Leaves of Grass, 1891-1892
Epigraph: Come, said my Soul
Inscriptions.
One's-Self I Sing
As I Ponder'd in Silence
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
To Foreign Lands
To a Historian
To Thee, Old Cause!
EidÛlons
For Him I Sing
When I Read the Book
Beginning my Studies
Beginners
To The States
On Journeys through The States
To a Certain Cantarice
Me Impertube
Savantism
The Ship Starting
I Hear America Singing
What Place is Besieged?
Still though the One I Sing
Shut not Your Doors
Poets to Come
To You
Thou Reader
Starting from Paumanok
Song of Myself
Children of Adam
To the Garden the World
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
I Sing the Body Electric
A Woman Waits for Me
Spontaneous Me
One Hour to Madness and Joy
Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd
Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals
We Two-How Long We were Fool'd
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
I am He that Aches with Love
Native Moments
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
I Heard You, Solemn-sweet Pipes of the Organ
Facing West from California's Shores
As Adam Early in the Morning
Calamus
In Paths Untrodden
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Whoever You are Holding Me now in Hand
For You O Democracy
These I Singing in Spring
Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
The Base of all Metaphysics
Recorders Ages Hence
When I heard at the Close of the Day
Are You the New person, drawn toward Me?
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
Not Heat Flames up and Consumes
Trickle Drops
City of Orgies
Behold this Swarthy Face
I saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
To a Stranger
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
I Hear it was Charged against Me
The Prairie-Grass Dividing
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame
We Two Boys Together Clinging
A Promise to California
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
No Labor-Saving Machine
A Glimpse
A Leaf for Hand in Hand
Earth! My Likeness!
I Dream'd in a Dream
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
To the East and to the West
Sometimes with One I Love
To a Western Boy
Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love
Among the Multitude
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
That Shadow My Likeness
Full of Life now
Salut au Monde
Song of the Open Road
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Song of the Answerer
Our Old Feuillage
A Song of Joys
Song of the Broad-Axe
Song of the Exposition
Song of the Redwood-Tree
A Song for Occupations
A Song of the Rolling Earth
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Birds of Passage
Song of the Universal
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
To You
France the 18th Year of These States
Myself and Mine
Year of Meteors (1859-1860)
With Antecedents
A Broadway Pageant
Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
Tears
To the Man-of-War-Bird
Aboard at a Ship's Helm
On the Beach at Night
The World Below the Brine
On the Beach at Night Alone
Song for All Seas, All Ships
Patroling Barnegat
After the Sea-Ship
By the Roadside
A Boston Ballad-1854
Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States
A Hand-Mirror
Gods
Germs
Thoughts
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Perfections
O Me! O Life!
To a President
I Sit and Look Out
To Rich Givers
The Dalliance of Eagles
Roaming in Thought
A Farm Picture
A Child's Amaze
The Runner
Beautiful Women
Mother and Babe
Thought
Visor'd
Gliding o'er All
Has't Never Come to Thee an Hour
Thought
To Old Age
Locations and Times
Offerings
To Identify the 16th, 17th or 18th Presidentiad
Drum-Taps.
First O Songs for a Prelude
Eighteen Sixty-One
Beat! Beat! Drums!
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Rise, O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
Virginia-the West
City of Ships
The Centenarian's Story
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
An Army Corps on the March
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
Come up from the Fields, Father
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
Not the Pilot
Year that Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
The Wound-Dresser
Long, too Long America
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Dirge for Two Veterans
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
I saw Old General at Bay
The Artilleryman's Vision
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Race of Veterans
World Take Good Notice
O Tan-faced Prairie Boy
Look Down, Fair Moon
Reconciliation
How Solemn as One by One Spirit whose Work is Done
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
Delicate Cluster
To a Certain Civilian
Lo! Victress on the Peaks
Spirit whose Work is Done
Adieu to a Soldier
Turn O Libertad
To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd
O Captain! My Captain!
Hush'd be the Camps To-day
This Dust was Once the Man
By Blue Ontario's Shore
Reversals
Autumn Rivulets
As Consequent
The Return of the Heroes
There was a Child Went Forth
Old Ireland
The City Dead-House
This Compost
To Foil'd European Revolutionaire
Unnamed Lands
Song of Prudence
The Singer in the Prison
Warble for Lilac-Time
Outlines for a Tomb
Out from Behind the Mask
Vocalism
To Him That was Crucified
You Felons on Trial in Court
Laws for Creation
To a Common Prostitute
I was Looking a Long While
Thought
Miracles
Sparkles from The Wheel
To a Pupil
Unfolded Out of the Folds
What am I After All
Kosmos
Others may Praise what They Like
Who Learns My Lesson Complete
Tests
The Torch
O Star of France (1870-71)
The Ox Tamer
An Old Man's Thought of School
Wandering at Morn
Italian Music in Dakota
With All Thy Gifts
My Picture-Gallery
The Prairie States
Proud Music of the Storm
Passage to India
Prayer of Columbus
The Sleepers
Transpositions
To Think of Time
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Darest Thou Now O Soul
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Chanting the Square Dieific
Of Him I Love Day and Night
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
As if a Phantom Caress'd Me
Assurances
Quicksand Years
That Music Always Round Me
What Ship Puzzled at Sea
A Noiseless Patient Spider
O Living Always, Always Dying
To One Shortly to Die
Night on the Prairies
Thought
The Last Invocation
As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing
Pensive and Faltering
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
A Paumanok Picture
From Noon to Starry Night
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
Faces
The Mystic Trumpeter
To a Locomotive in Winter
O Magnet-South
Mannhatta
All is Truth
A Riddle Song
Excelsior
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
Thoughts
Mediums
Weave in, My Hardy Life
Spain, 1873-74
By Broad Potomac's Shore
From Far Dakota's Canyons (June 25, 1876)
Old War-Dreams
Think-Sprinkled Bunting
What Best I See in Thee
Spirit That Form'd This Scene
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
A Clear Midnight
Songs of Parting
As the Time Draws Nigh
Years of the Modern
Ashes of Soldiers
Thoughts
Song at Sunset
As at Thy Portals Also Death
My Legacy
Pensive of Her Dead Gazing
Camps of Green
The Sobbing of the Bells
As They Draw to a Close
Joy, Shipmate, Joy
The Untold Want
Portals
These Carols
Now Finale to the Shore
So Long!
First Annex: Sands at Seventy
Mannahatta
Paumanok
From Montauk Point
To Those Who've Fail'd
A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
The Bravest Soldiers
A Font of Type
As I Sit Writing Here
My Canary Bird
Queries to My Seventieth Year
The Wallabout Martyrs
The First Dandelion
America Memories
To-day and Thee
After the Dazzle of Day
Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809
Out of May's Shows Selected
Halcyon Days
Fancies at Navesink
(The Pilot in the Mist - - - Had I the Choice - - - You Tides With
Ceaseless Swell - - - Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning - - -
And Yet Not You Alone - - - Proudly the Flood Comes In - - -
By That Long Scan of Waves - - - Then Last of All.)
Election Day, November, 1884
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea
Death of General Grant
Red Jacket (from Aloft)
Washington's Monument, February, 1885
Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Broadway
To Get the Final Lift of Songs
Old Salt Kossabone
The Dead Tenor
Continuities
Yonnondio
Life
"Going Somewhere"
Small the Theme of My Chant
True Conquerors
The United States to Old World Critics
The Calming Thought of All
Thanks in Old Age
Life and Death
The Voice of the Rain
Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
While Not the Past Forgetting
The Dying Veteran
Stronger Lessons
A Prairie Sunset
Twenty Years
Orange Buds by Mail From Florida
Twilight
You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
The Dead Emperor
As the Greek's Signal Flame
The Dismantled Ship
Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
An Evening Lull
Old Age's Lambent Peaks
After the Supper and Talk
Second Annex: Good-Bye My Fancy
Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht
Lingering Last Drops
Good-Bye my Fancy
On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain
My 71st Year
Apparitions
The Pallid Wreath
An Ended Day
Old Age's Ship · Crafty Death's
To the Pending Year
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
Long, Long Hence
Bravo, Paris Exposition
Interpolation Sounds
To the Sunset Breeze
Old Chants
A Christmas Greeting
Sounds of the Winter
A Twilight Song
When the Full-grown Poet Came
Osceola
A Voice from Death
A Persian Lesson
The Commonplace
"The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"
Mirages
L. of G.'s Purport
The Unexpress'd
Grand is the Seen
Unseen Buds
Good-Bye my Fancy
PREFATORY LETTER AND A BACKWARD GLANCE O'ER TRAVEL'D ROADS
Prefatory Letter to the Reader, Leaves of Grass1889
A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
Old Age Echoes
An Executor's Diary Note, 1891
To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power
Then Shall Perceive
The Few Drops Known
One Thought Ever at the Fore
While Behind All Firm and Erect
A Kiss to the Bride
Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish'd Shame
Supplement Hours
Of Many a Smutch'd Deed Reminiscent
To Be At All
Death's Valley
On the Same Picture
A Thought of Columbus
Other Poetic Writings
Note on the Texts
POEMS EXCLUDED FROM "LEAVES OF GRASS"
Great are the Myths
Poem of Remembrances for a Girl or a Boy of These States
Think of the Soul
Respondez!
[In the New Garden]
[Who is Now Reading This?]
[I Thought That Knowledge Alone Would Suffice]
[Hours Continuing Long]
[So Far, and So Far, and On Toward the End]
Thoughts-1: Visages
Leaflets
Thoughts-6: "Of What I Write"
Says
Apostroph
O Sun of Real Peace
To You
Now Life Me Close
To the Reader at Parting
Debris
[States!]
Thoughts-2: "Of Waters, Forests, Hills"
Thoughts-4: "Of Ownership · . ."
Bathed in War's Perfume
Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb
Up, Lurid Stars!
Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me
This Day, O Soul
When I Read the Book
Lessons
Ashes of Soldiers: Epigraph
One Song, America, Before I Go
Souvenirs of Democracy
From My Last Years
In Former Songs
The Beauty of the Ship
After an Interval
Two Rivulets
Or from That Sea of Time
As in a Swoon
[Last Droplets]
Ship Ahoy!
For Queen Victoria's Birthday
L of G.
After the Argument
For Us Two, Reader Dear
PASSAGES EXCLUDED FROM "LEAVES OF GRASS" POEMS
[The Writer of Melodious Verses]
[This is the Breath for America]
[Eleves I Salute You!]
[Old Forever New Things]
[The Teeming Mother of Mothers]
[This is Mastering Me]
[O Hot-Cheek'd and Blushing]
[Now Lucifer Was Not Dead]
[Invocation: To Workmen and Workwomen]
[Facts Showered Over with Light]
[Language for America]
[His Shape Arises]
[A Thought of the Clef of Eternity]
[What Do You Hear, Walt Whitman?]
[You Dumb Beautiful Ministers]
[Which Are My Miracles?]
[You Who Celebrates Bygones!]
[Creations for Strong Adults]
[Readers to Come]
[O Bitter Sprig!]
[Nearing Departure]
[Let None Be Content with Me]
[Realities, the Visions of Poets]
[Give Me the Clue · . · the Word Final]
[Orators Fir for America]
[Epigraph: A Carol of Harvest]
[With Additional Songs Every Spring]
[Aroused and Angry]
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
Pictures
[Miscellaneous Fragments of "Pictures"]
[All that We Are]
[I am the Poet]
[O I Must Not Forget!]
[Love Is the Cause of Causes]
[I Last Winter]
[I Cannot Be Awake]
Light and Air
[Of Your Soul]
[What the Sun]
[Have You Supplied]
[I Do Not Expect]
Scantlings
Poems of Existence
[Until You Can Explain · . · ]
[Remembrances]
Thought
To The Future
To an Exclusive
As of Forms
[To This Continent · . .]
[The Divinest Blessings · . .]
Thoughts
[What Would It Bring You]
The Two Vaults
Two Antique Records
O Brood Continental
Kentucky
To The Prevailing Bards
[The Long, Long Solemn Trenches]
[Three Rises in my Brain]
Ship of Libertad
After Certain Disastrous Campaigns
Sights-the Army Corps, Encamped on the War Field
Sonnet: Inscription to Precede · . .
While the Schools and the Teachers Are Teaching
[Two Elegies on Lincoln]
April 1865
Beauty: Series of Comparisons
[Mask with Their Lids]
Starry Union
Hands Round
Wood odors
UNPUBLISHED POEMS
A Soul Duet
To the Poor
Pictures
Broadway, 1861
[I Too Am Drawn]
[I Stand and Look]
Of My Poems
Of the Democratic Party 58-59-60
[To What You Said]
[While Some I So Deeply Loved]
Reminiscences
[Disease and Death]
Starry Union
[What the Word of Power]
Last Words
[Glad the Jaunts for the Known]
Champagne in Ice
To the Soul
Two Little Buds
[Sunrise]
UNCOLLECTED MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS
[Sesostris]
After Death
[America]
America to the Old World Bards
[American Air]
[War]
[As Nature]
We Are
[As to You]
[As We Are]
? Ashes of Roses
The Body-
[Can ?]
[Decoration Day]
[Divine is the Person]
Ebb and Flood Tides
[The Epos of a Life]
[The Grappler]
[Have I Refreshed]
[Hear My Fife!]
[I Have Appeared]
[Immortality]
[I Admire]
[I Am a Look]
[I Am a Student]
[I Am Become]
[I Am Not Content]
[I Am That Halfgrown Angry Boy]
[I Know Many Beautiful Things]
[I Know that Amativeness]
[I Shall Venerate]
[I Subject All the Teachings]
[In American Schools]
[I'll Trace This Garden]
[It Were Easy to be Rich]
[Life, Light]
[Living Bulbs]
[Nor Humility's Book]
[Or I See Now]
[Osirus]
[The Poet is a Recruiter]
[The Power by Which]
[Princess of Wales]
[A Procession Without Halt]
[Remember if You Are Dying]
[Sanity and Ensemble]
[Shall we Sky-lark]
[Ships Sail upon the Waters]
The Souls Procession
[Spirituality, the Unknown]
[That is Profitable]
[These Are the Caravan]
Proem
[Undulating, Swiftly Merging]
[What, Think You]
[Why Should I Subscribe]
[Will You Have the Walls]
[The Woman That Sells]
[Poetic Lines in 1855-1856 Notebook]
Prefaces
Preface 1855-Leaves of Grass, First Edition
Prefatory Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leaves of Grass 1856
Emerson to Whitman, 1855
Whitman to Emerson, 1856
Preface 1872-As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Preface 1876-Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets
A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, 1888 (see above)
CHRONOLOGY OF WALT WHITMAN'S LIFE AND WORK
Whitman on His Art
Comments, 1855-1892
A Whitman Manuscript
Criticism
Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass: A Volume of Poems Just Published
Edward Everett Hale · Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855
George Saintsbury · Leaves of Grass
William Dean Howells · [Whitman in Retrospect]
New York Times · Walt Whitman's Career
Havelock Ellis · Whitman
Barrett Wendell · Walt Whitman
Van Wyck Brooks · The Precipitant
John Cowper Powys · Walt Whitman
D. H. Lawrence · Whitman
Lewis Mumford · High Noon
Vernon Louis Parrington · Afterglow of the
Enlightenment
Henry Alonzo Myers · Whitman's Conception of the Spiritual
Democracy
Cesare Pavese · Whitman-Poetry of Poetry Writing
Randall Jarrell · Some Lines from Whitman
Richard Volney Chase · One's Self I sing
Gay Wilson Allen · Walt Whitman: "Cosmos-Inspired"
William Carlos Williams · An Essay on Leaves of Grass
Iwao Matsuhara · Walt Whitman in Japan
Malcolm Cowley · [Hindu Mysticism and Whitman's "Song
of Myself"]
V. K. Chari (Whitman and Indian Thought
Roger Asselineau · [The "Plan" for Leaves of Grass]
Karl Shapiro · The First White Aboriginal
Bernice Slote · Start with the Sun
Denis Donoghue · Walt Whitman
Anthony Burgess · The Answerer
Kenneth Rexroth · Walt Whitman
Horace M. Kallen · Of Love, Death, and Walt Whitman
Harold W. Blodgett (The Critical Response
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF TITLES
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