The following manuscripts are housed in the University of Virginia's Valentine-Barrett collection and are reproduced with permission.

While they also appear in the comprehensive listings of all available poetry manuscripts, the following group of manuscripts warrants its own separate listing. These manuscripts, commonly known as the "Live Oak, with Moss" sequence, were originally untitled, though headed with roman numberals I - XII. Whitman revised the poems and split them up prior to their publication in 1860 as part of the much-expanded "Calamus" cluster. They are listed below by first line, in the order of those original roman numberals.

• Not the heat flames up and consumes
• I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing [two leaves]
• When I heard at the close of the day [two leaves]
• This moment as I sit alone, yearning and pensive
• Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me [three leaves]
• What think you I have taken my pen to record?
• You bards of ages hence! when you refer to me, mind not so much my poems [two leaves]
• Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted [two leaves]
• I dreamed in a dream of a city where all the men were like brothers
• O you whom I often and silently come where you are
• Earth! Though you look so impassive
• To the young man, many things to absorb