Poetry Manuscripts of Walt Whitman

Whitman's Poems in Periodicals

The first list below includes all poems for which the Whitman Archive currently has complete transcriptions and publication information. The second list indicates items not yet available on the site.

Poems and Poem Sequences:

Abraham Lincoln (Born Feb. 12, 1809)
After All, Not to Create Only [New York Commerical Advertiser]
After All, Not to Create Only [New York Evening Post]
Ambition
After the Dazzle of Day
Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold
America
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
As I Sit Writing Here
As One By One Withdraw the Lofty Actors
As the Greeks Signal Flame
Bardic Symbols
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Blood-Money
Bravest Soldiers, The
Bravo, Paris Exposition!
Broadway
Brother of All with Generous Hand
Calming Thought of All, The
Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, A
Carol of Harvest, for 1867, A
Child's Reminiscence, A
The Columbian's Song
Commonplace, The
Continuities
Dalliance of the Eagles, The
Dead Emperor, The
Dead Tenor, The
Death of the Nature-Lover, The
Death-Sonnet for Custer, A
Death's Valley
Dismantled Ship, The
Each Has His Grief
End of All, The
Errand-Bearers, The
Extracts from Two Rivulets

   [Two Rivulets]
   [Or From that Sea of Time]
   Eidólons
   [Out from Behind This Mask]
   To a Locomotive in Winter
   [Come, said my Soul]
   After an Interval
   When the Full-Grown Poet Came
   The Beauty of the Ship
   A Song by the Potomac
   Ship of Democracy

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

   1. [The music always round me]
   2. [A Leaf for hand in hand]
   3. [Early in the morning]

Life
Life and Death
Little Bells Last Night
Love That is Hereafter, The
Mannahatta
Man-of-War Bird, The
Mississippi at Midnight, The
My Canary Bird
My Departure
My 71st Year
Mystic Trumpeter, The
Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish'd Shame
November Boughs

   You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
   Going Somewhere
   After the Supper and Talk
   Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone

   Sounds of the Winter
   The Unexpress'd
   Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht
   After the Argument

Old Age's Lambent Peaks
Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's
Old Ireland
Old Man's Thought of School, An
Old Salt Kossabone
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
O Star of France
Out of May's Shows Selected
[Over and through the burial chant]
Pallid Wreath, The
Patrolling Barnegat
Paumanok
Play-Ground, The
Poemet [Of him I love day and night]
Poemet [That shadow, my likeness]
Prairie Sunset, A
Prayer of Columbus
Proud Music of the Sea-Storm
Punishment of Pride, The
Queries to My Seventieth Year
Red Jacket (From Aloft)
Resurgemus
Sea Captains, Young or Old
Shakespeare Bacon's Cipher
Ship Ahoy!
Singer in the Prison, The
Singing Thrush, The
Sobbing of the Bells, The
Song for Certain Congressmen
Song of the Redwood Tree
Song of the Universal [New York Daily Graphic]
Song of the Universal, The [New York Evening Post]
Soon Shall Winter's Foil Be Here
Spain
Spannish Lady, The
Summer Invocation, A
To-day and Thee
Thought of Columbus, A
To the Sunset Breeze
To the Year 1889
To Those Who've Fail'd
True Conquerors
Twilight
Twilight Song, A
Twenty Years
United States to Old World Critics, The
Virginia—The West
Voice of the Rain, The
Wallabout Martyrs, The
Warble for Lilac-Time
We All Shall Rest At Last
What Best I See In Thee
Whispers of Heavenly Death

   1. [Whispers of heavenly death]
   2. [Darest thou now, O Soul]
   3. [A noiseless, patient spider]
   4. [At the last, tenderly]
   5. [Pensive and faltering]

Poems Not Currently Available*:

After All, Not to Create Only [Brooklyn Standard, 7 Sept. 1871]
After All, Not to Create Only [Washington Daily Chronicle,
7 Sept. 1871]
Come, Said My Soul [New York Daily Graphic, Christmas issue 1874]
Death and Burial of McDonald Clarke [New York Aurora,
18 Mar. 1842]
Hitherto Unpublished Poem by Walt Whitman, A [Home Journal,
30 Mar. 1892]
House of Friends, The [New York Daily Tribune, 14 Jun. 1850]
In the Wake Following [New York Daily Graphic, Christmas
issue 1874]
Lesson of the Two Symbols [The Subterranean, 15 Jul. 1843]
My Picture-Gallery [The American, 30 Oct. 1880]
Old Chants [Truth, 19 March 1891]
[On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain] [Once a Week, 9 Jun. 1891]
Osceola [Munyon's Illustrated World, Apr. 1890]
Our Future Lot [Long-Islander, before Oct. 1838]
Ox-Tamer, The [New York Daily Graphic, Christmas issue 1874]
Riddle Song, A [Tarrytown Sunnyside Press, 3 Apr. 1880]
Tale of a Shirt: A Very Pathetic Ballad [New York Sunday Times &
Noah's Weekly Messenger, 31 Mar. 1844]
Time to Come [New York Aurora, 9 Apr. 1842]
[Unseen Buds] [Once a Week, 9 Jun. 1891]
Voice from Death, A [New York World 7 Jun. 1889]

* We continue to work on locating these poems in their original publications. If you have access to one of these publications (either the original or microfilm) and are willing to share that information so that we might arrange for digital images, please contact Susan Belasco or Elizabeth Lorang.

page last updated: 5/2/2007