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SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn!
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. 1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west!
WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages
NOW LIST TO MY MORNING'S ROMANZA. 1 Now list to my morning's romanza—I tell the signs of the Answerer
CAROL OF OCCUPATIONS. 1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess!
THOUGHTS. 1 OF ownership—As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate
THE SLEEPERS. 1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly step
CAROL OF WORDS. 1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact—suns, moons, ani- mals animals —all these are words
RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860. 1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous the
SUGGESTIONS. 1 THAT whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person —That is finally right. 2 That the
GREAT ARE THE MYTHS. 1 GREAT are the myths—I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve—I too look back
DRUM-TAPS. 1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in
1 BEAT! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Come Up from the Fields, Father. 1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And
THE DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full- dazzling
DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS. 1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here—and
Faces FACES 1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by- road by-road —lo! such faces!
MANHATTAN'S STREETS I SAUNTER'D, PONDERING. 1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space
AS I SAT ALONE BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE. 1 As I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these
Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle, The haughty defiance of the Year 1—
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols?
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest; I withdraw from the still woods I
(A Reminiscence of 1864.) 1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white
A SONG. 1 COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE. 1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on!
France, FRANCE, The 18th Year of These States. 1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream
Europe, EUROPE, The 72d and 73d Years of These States. 1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair,
AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH. 1 As the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud, A dread beyond, of I know not what
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd, through convuls'd pains, as through
1 TO conclude—I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then,
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn!
1 BEAT! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
FACES 1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by- road by-road —lo! such faces!
TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE. 1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on!
AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE. 1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering
IN CABIN'D SHIPS AT SEA. 1 IN cabin'd ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth
OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN, THE CROWD. 1 OUT of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,
A SONG. 1 COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever
NOW LIST TO MY MORNING'S ROMANZA. 1 Now list to my morning's romanza—I tell the signs of the Answerer
DRUM-TAPS. 1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in
1 BEAT! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Come Up from the Fields, Father. 1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And
THE DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full- dazzling
FACES 1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by- road by-road —lo! such faces!
MANHATTAN'S STREETS I SAUNTER'D, PONDERING. 1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space
AS I SAT ALONE BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE. 1 As I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these
Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle, The haughty defiance of the Year 1—
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols?
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest; I withdraw from the still woods I
(A Reminiscence of 1864.) 1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white
TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE. 1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on!
FRANCE, The 18th Year of These States. 1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding
EUROPE, The 72d and 73d Years of These States. 1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair
AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH. 1 As the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud, A dread beyond, of I know not what
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd, through convuls'd pains, as through
1 TO conclude—I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then,
AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE. 1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering
IN CABIN'D SHIPS AT SEA. 1 IN cabin'd ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK. 1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd
WALT WHITMAN. 1 I CELEBRATE myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth
OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN, THE CROWD. 1 OUT of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,