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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Epigraph
  4. Leaves of Grass
    1. Inscriptions
      1. One’s-Self I Sing
      2. As I Ponder’d in Silence
      3. In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
      4. To Foreign Lands
      5. To a Historian
      6. To Thee Old Cause
      7. Eidólons
      8. For Him I Sing
      9. When I Read the Book
      10. Beginning My Studies
      11. Beginners
      12. To the States
      13. On Journeys Through the States
      14. To a Certain Cantatrice
      15. Me Imperturbe
      16. Savantism
      17. The Ship Starting
      18. I Hear America Singing
      19. What Place Is Besieged?
      20. Still Though the One I Sing
      21. Shut Not Your Doors
      22. Poets to Come
      23. To You
      24. Thou Reader
    2. Starting from Paumanok
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
      14. 14
      15. 15
      16. 16
      17. 17
      18. 18
      19. 19
    3. Song of Myself
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
      14. 14
      15. 15
      16. 16
      17. 17
      18. 18
      19. 19
      20. 20
      21. 21
      22. 22
      23. 23
      24. 24
      25. 25
      26. 26
      27. 27
      28. 28
      29. 29
      30. 30
      31. 31
      32. 32
      33. 33
      34. 34
      35. 35
      36. 36
      37. 37
      38. 38
      39. 39
      40. 40
      41. 41
      42. 42
      43. 43
      44. 44
      45. 45
      46. 46
      47. 47
      48. 48
      49. 49
      50. 50
      51. 51
      52. 52
    4. Children of Adam
      1. To the Garden the World
      2. From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
      3. I Sing the Body Electric
        1. 1
        2. 2
        3. 3
        4. 4
        5. 5
        6. 6
        7. 7
        8. 8
        9. 9
      4. A Woman Waits for Me
      5. Spontaneous Me
      6. One Hour to Madness and Joy
      7. Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
      8. Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
      9. We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
      10. O Hymen! O Hymenee!
      11. I Am He That Aches with Love
      12. Native Moments
      13. Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
      14. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
      15. Facing West from California’s Shores
      16. As Adam Early in the Morning
    5. Calamus
      1. In Paths Untrodden
      2. Scented Herbage of My Breast
      3. Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
      4. For You O Democracy
      5. These I Singing in Spring
      6. Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
      7. Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
      8. The Base of All Metaphysics
      9. Recorders Ages Hence
      10. When I Heard at the Close of the Day
      11. Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
      12. Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
      13. Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
      14. Trickle Drops
      15. City of Orgies
      16. Behold This Swarthy Face
      17. I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
      18. To a Stranger
      19. This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
      20. I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
      21. The Prairie-Grass Dividing
      22. When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
      23. We Two Boys Together Clinging
      24. A Promise to California
      25. Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
      26. No Labor-Saving Machine
      27. A Glimpse
      28. A Leaf for Hand in Hand
      29. Earth, My Likeness
      30. I Dream’d in a Dream
      31. What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
      32. To the East and to the West
      33. Sometimes with One I Love
      34. To a Western Boy
      35. Fast-Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
      36. Among the Multitude
      37. O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
      38. That Shadow My Likeness
      39. Full of Life Now
    6. Salut au Monde!
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
    7. Song of the Open Road
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
      14. 14
      15. 15
    8. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
    9. Song of the Answerer
      1. 1
      2. 2
    10. Our Old Feuillage
    11. A Song of Joys
    12. Song of the Broad-Axe
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
    13. Song of the Exposition
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
    14. Song of the Redwood-Tree
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
    15. A Song for Occupations
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
    16. A Song of the Rolling Earth
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
    17. Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
  5. Birds of Passage
    1. Song of the Universal
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
    2. Pioneers! O Pioneers!
    3. To You
    4. France
    5. Myself and Mine
    6. Year of Meteors
    7. With Antecedents
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
  6. A Broadway Pageant
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
  7. Sea-Drift
    1. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
    2. As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
    3. Tears
    4. To the Man-of-War-Bird
    5. Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
    6. On the Beach at Night
    7. The World Below the Brine
    8. On the Beach at Night Alone
    9. Song for All Seas, All Ships
      1. 1
      2. 2
    10. Patroling Barnegat
    11. After the Sea-Ship
  8. By the Roadside
    1. A Boston Ballad
    2. Europe
    3. A Hand-Mirror
    4. Gods
    5. Germs
    6. Thoughts
    7. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
    8. Perfections
    9. O Me! O Life!
    10. To a President
    11. I Sit and Look Out
    12. To Rich Givers
    13. The Dalliance of the Eagles
    14. Roaming in Thought
    15. A Farm Picture
    16. A Child’s Amaze
    17. The Runner
    18. Beautiful Women
    19. Mother and Babe
    20. Thought
    21. Visor’d
    22. Thought
    23. Gliding O’er All
    24. Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
    25. Thought
    26. To Old Age
    27. Locations and Times
    28. Offerings
    29. To the States
  9. Drum-Taps
    1. First O Songs for a Prelude
    2. Eighteen Sixty-One
    3. Beat! Beat! Drums!
    4. From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
    5. Song of the Banner at Daybreak
    6. Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
    7. Virginia—The West
    8. City of Ships
    9. The Centenarian’s Story
    10. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
    11. Bivouac on a Mountain Side
    12. An Army Corps on the March
    13. By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
    14. Come Up from the Fields Father
    15. Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
    16. A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
    17. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
    18. As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
    19. Not the Pilot
    20. Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
    21. The Wound-Dresser
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
    22. Long, Too Long America
    23. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
      1. 1
      2. 2
    24. Dirge for Two Veterans
    25. Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
    26. I Saw Old General at Bay
    27. The Artilleryman’s Vision
    28. Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
    29. Not Youth Pertains to Me
    30. Race of Veterans
    31. World Take Good Notice
    32. O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
    33. Look Down Fair Moon
    34. Reconciliation
    35. How Solemn as One by One
    36. As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
    37. Delicate Cluster
    38. To a Certain Civilian
    39. Lo, Victress on the Peaks
    40. Spirit Whose Work Is Done
    41. Adieu to a Soldier
    42. Turn O Libertad
    43. To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
  10. Memories of President Lincoln
    1. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
      9. 9
      10. 10
      11. 11
      12. 12
      13. 13
      14. 14
      15. 15
      16. 16
    2. O Captain! My Captain!
    3. Hush’d Be the Camps To-day
    4. This Dust Was Once the Man
  11. By Blue Ontario’s Shore
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
    5. 5
    6. 6
    7. 7
    8. 8
    9. 9
    10. 10
    11. 11
    12. 12
    13. 13
    14. 14
    15. 15
    16. 16
    17. 17
    18. 18
    19. 19
    20. 20
  12. Reversals
  13. Autumn Rivulets
    1. As Consequent, etc.
    2. The Return of the Heroes
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
    3. There Was a Child Went Forth
    4. Old Ireland
    5. The City Dead-House
    6. This Compost
      1. 1
      2. 2
    7. To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
    8. Unnamed Lands
    9. Song of Prudence
    10. The Singer in the Prison
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
    11. Warble for Lilac-Time
    12. Outlines for a Tomb
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
    13. Out from Behind This Mask
      1. 1
      2. 2
    14. Vocalism
      1. 1
      2. 2
    15. To Him That Was Crucified
    16. You Felons on Trial in Courts
    17. Laws for Creations
    18. To a Common Prostitute
    19. I Was Looking a Long While
    20. Thought
    21. Miracles
    22. Sparkles from the Wheel
    23. To a Pupil
    24. Unfolded Out of the Folds
    25. What Am I After All
    26. Kosmos
    27. Others May Praise What They Like
    28. Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
    29. Tests
    30. The Torch
    31. O Star of France
    32. The Ox-Tamer
    33. An Old Man’s Thought of School
    34. Wandering at Morn
    35. Italian Music in Dakota
    36. With All Thy Gifts
    37. My Picture-Gallery
    38. The Prairie States
  14. Proud Music of the Storm
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
    5. 5
    6. 6
  15. Passage to India
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
    5. 5
    6. 6
    7. 7
    8. 8
    9. 9
  16. Prayer of Columbus
  17. The Sleepers
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
    5. 5
    6. 6
    7. 7
    8. 8
  18. Transpositions
  19. To Think of Time
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
    5. 5
    6. 6
    7. 7
    8. 8
    9. 9
  20. Whispers of Heavenly Death
    1. Darest Thou Now O Soul
    2. Whispers of Heavenly Death
    3. Chanting the Square Deific
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
    4. Of Him I Love Day and Night
    5. Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
    6. As if a Phantom Caress’d Me
    7. Assurances
    8. Quicksand Years
    9. That Music Always Round Me
    10. What Ship Puzzled at Sea
    11. A Noiseless Patient Spider
    12. O Living Always, Always Dying
    13. To One Shortly to Die
    14. Night on the Prairies
    15. Thought
    16. The Last Invocation
    17. As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing
    18. Pensive and Faltering
  21. Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
    5. 5
    6. 6
  22. A Paumanok Picture
  23. From Noon to Starry Night
    1. Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
    2. Faces
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
    3. The Mystic Trumpeter
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. 3
      4. 4
      5. 5
      6. 6
      7. 7
      8. 8
    4. To a Locomotive in Winter
    5. O Magnet-South
    6. Mannahatta
    7. All Is Truth
    8. A Riddle Song
    9. Excelsior
    10. Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
    11. Thoughts
    12. Mediums
    13. Weave In, My Hardy Life
    14. Spain, 1873–74
    15. By Broad Potomac’s Shore
    16. From Far Dakota’s Canyons
    17. Old War-Dreams
    18. Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
    19. What Best I See in Thee
    20. Spirit That Form’d This Scene
    21. As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
    22. A Clear Midnight
  24. Songs of Parting
    1. As the Time Draws Nigh
    2. Years of the Modern
    3. Ashes of Soldiers
    4. Thoughts
      1. 1
      2. 2
    5. Song at Sunset
    6. As at Thy Portals Also Death
    7. My Legacy
    8. Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
    9. Camps of Green
    10. The Sobbing of the Bells
    11. As They Draw to a Close
    12. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
    13. The Untold Want
    14. Portals
    15. These Carols
    16. Now Finalè to the Shore
    17. So Long!
  25. Sands at Seventy
    1. Mannahatta
    2. Paumanok
    3. From Montauk Point
    4. To Those Who’ve Fail’d
    5. A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
    6. The Bravest Soldiers
    7. A Font of Type
    8. As I Sit Writing Here
    9. My Canary Bird
    10. Queries to My Seventieth Year
    11. The Wallabout Martyrs
    12. The First Dandelion
    13. America
    14. Memories
    15. To-day and Thee
    16. After the Dazzle of Day
    17. Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
    18. Out of May’s Shows Selected
    19. Halcyon Days
    20. Fancies at Navesink
      1. The Pilot in the Mist
      2. Had I the Choice
      3. You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
      4. Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
      5. And Yet Not You Alone
      6. Proudly the Flood Comes In
      7. By That Long Scan of Waves
      8. Then Last of All
    21. Election Day, November, 1884
    22. With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
    23. Death of General Grant
    24. Red Jacket (from Aloft)
    25. Washington’s Monument, February, 1885
    26. Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
    27. Broadway
    28. To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
    29. Old Salt Kossabone
    30. The Dead Tenor
    31. Continuities
    32. Yonnondio
    33. Life
    34. “Going Somewhere”
    35. Small the Theme of My Chant
    36. True Conquerors
    37. The United States to Old World Critics
    38. The Calming Thought of All
    39. Thanks in Old Age
    40. Life and Death
    41. The Voice of the Rain
    42. Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
    43. While Not the Past Forgetting
    44. The Dying Veteran
    45. Stronger Lessons
    46. A Prairie Sunset
    47. Twenty Years
    48. Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
    49. Twilight
    50. You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
    51. Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
    52. The Dead Emperor
    53. As the Greek’s Signal Flame
    54. The Dismantled Ship
    55. Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
    56. An Evening Lull
    57. Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
    58. After the Supper and Talk
  26. Goodbye My Fancy
    1. Preface Note to 2nd Annex
    2. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!
    3. Lingering Last Drops
    4. Good-Bye My Fancy
    5. On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
    6. My 71st Year
    7. Apparitions
    8. The Pallid Wreath
    9. An Ended Day
    10. Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
    11. To the Pending Year
    12. Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher
    13. Long, Long Hence
    14. Bravo, Paris Exposition!
    15. Interpolation Sounds
    16. To the Sun-Set Breeze
    17. Old Chants
    18. A Christmas Greeting
    19. Sounds of the Winter
    20. A Twilight Song
    21. When the Full-Grown Poet Came
    22. Osceola
    23. A Voice from Death
    24. A Persian Lesson
    25. The Commonplace
    26. “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
    27. Mirages
    28. L. of G.’s Purport
    29. The Unexpress’d
    30. Grand Is the Seen
    31. Unseen Buds
    32. Goodbye My Fancy!
  27. Old Age Echoes
    1. To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power
    2. Then Shall Perceive
    3. The Few Drops Known
    4. One Thought Ever at the Fore
    5. While Behind All Firm and Erect
    6. A Kiss to the Bride
    7. Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish’d Shame
    8. Supplement Hours
    9. Of Many a Smutch’d Deed Reminiscent
    10. To Be at All
    11. Death’s Valley
    12. On the Same Picture
    13. A Thought of Columbus
  28. A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads
  29. Endnotes
  30. Colophon
  31. Uncopyright

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