The Walt Whitman Archive
Published Works
Books by Whitman
Leaves of Grass (1881–82)
- 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.
- eidólons.
- for him i sing.
- when i read the book.
- beginning my studies.
- beginners.
- to the states.
- on journeys through the states.
- to a certain cantatrice.
- me imperturbe.
- 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,
- myself and mine.
- year of meteors.
- 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.
- europe,
- 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 the eagles.
- roaming in thought.
- a farm picture.
- a child's amaze
- the runner.
- beautiful women.
- mother and babe.
- thought.
- visor'd.
- thought.
- gliding o'er all.
- hast never come to thee an hour.
- thought.
- to old age.
- locations and times.
- offerings.
- to the states,
- 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, and the road unknown.
- 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.
- 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 dooryard 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, etc.
- the return of the heroes.
- there was a child went forth.
- old ireland.
- the city dead-house.
- this compost.
- to a 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 this mask.
- vocalism.
- to him that was crucified.
- you felons on trial in courts.
- laws for creations.
- 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.
- 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 deific.
- 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.
- mannahatta.
- 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 cañons.
- old war-dreams.
- thick-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 on 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 finalè to the shore.
- so long!