Content:
These twenty leaves, numbered by a collector, relate to "Poem of Joys," first published in
the 1860
Leaves of Grass
. The title became
"Poems of Joy" in 1867, but
reverted to the original title in its next two iterations (in the "Passage to India" supplement of
1872 and 1876). In 1881 it was finally titled "A Song of Joys" and left independent of any
cluster.
