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SONG OF MYSELF. 1 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR-YARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last
1 O CAPTAIN! my captain!
Chanting the Square Deific CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing
In Clouds Descending, in Midnight Sleep IN CLOUDS DESCENDING, IN MIDNIGHT SLEEP. 1 IN clouds descending
Dirge for Two Veterans DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS. 1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath
As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore AS I SAT ALONE BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE. 1 AS I sat alone, by blue
Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle, The haughty defiance of the Year 1—
Leaves of Grass 1 1 O ME, man of slack faith so long!
Song of the Open Road SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. 1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy
To Workingmen TO WORKINGMEN. 1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess;
Debris 1 HE is wisest who has the most caution; He only wins who goes far enough.
Leaves of Grass 1 1. O HASTENING light! O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!
Thoughts 1 1.
Says SAYS. 1. I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person —That is finally right. 2.
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
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 see you face to face!
Despairing Cries DESPAIRING CRIES. 1 DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The
Poems of Joy POEMS OF JOY. 1 O TO make the most jubilant poems! O full of music!
Leaves of Grass 1 1.
Burial BURIAL. 1 TO think of it! To think of time—of all that retrospection!
Leaves of Grass 1 1.
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with
Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN, THE CROWD. 1 OUT of the rolling ocean,
Thoughts 1 1.
1 To conclude—I announce what comes after me, I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then
SONG OF THE ANSWERER. 1 NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother's bowels drawn, Wooded flesh
SONG OF THE EXPOSITION. 1 (AH little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The
SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE. 1 A CALIFORNIA song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH. 1 A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal
WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
A BROADWAY PAGEANT. 1 OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded
AS I EBB'D WITH THE OCEAN OF LIFE. 1 AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know
SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS. 1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
(To Confront a Portrait.) 1 OUT from behind this bending rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this
VOCALISM. 1 VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are
PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM. 1 PROUD music of the storm, Blast that careers so free, whistling across the
PASSAGE TO INDIA. 1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong
THE SLEEPERS. 1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping
TO THINK OF TIME. 1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection, To think of to-day, and the ages continued
Leaves of Grass 1 1. ELEMENTAL drifts!
Enfans D'adam 1 1.