Table of ContentPREFACE
BOOK I. 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. Eidolons
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
BOOK II
1. Starting from Paumanok
BOOK III
1. Song of Myself
BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
1. To the Garden the World
2. From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
3. I Sing the Body Electric
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
BOOK V. 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 Persue 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
BOOK VI
1. Salut au Monde!
BOOK VII
1. Song of the Open Road
BOOK VIII
1. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
BOOK IX
1. Song of the Answerer
BOOK X
1. Our Old Feuillage
BOOK XI
1. A Song of Joys
BOOK XII
1. Song of the Broad-Axe
BOOK XIII
1. Song of the Exposition
BOOK XIV
1. Song of the Redwood-Tree
BOOK XV
1. A Song for Occupations
BOOK XVI
1. A Song of the Rolling Earth
2. Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE
1. Song of the Universal
2. Pioneers! O Pioneers!
3. To You
4. France [the 18th Year of these States]
5. Myself and Mine
6. Year of Meteors [1859-60]
7. With Antecedents
BOOK XVIII
1. A Broadway Pageant
BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT
1. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
2. As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
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
10. Patroling Barnegat
11. After the Sea-Ship
BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE
1. A Boston Ballad [1854]
2. Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
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 [After reading Hegel]
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 [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
BOOK XXI. 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
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
22. Long, Too Long America
23. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
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 [Washington City, 1865]
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 [Washington City, 1865]
41. Adieu to a Soldier
42. Turn O Libertad
43. To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod
BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
1. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
2. O Captain! My Captain!
3. Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865]
4. This Dust Was Once the Man
BOOK XXIII
1. By Blue Ontario's Shore
2. Reversals
BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
1. As Consequent, Etc.
2. The Return of the Heroes
3. There Was a Child Went Forth
4. Old Ireland
5. The City Dead-House
6. This Compost
7. To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire
8. Unnamed Land
9. Song of Prudence
10. The Singer in the Prison
11. Warble for Lilac-Time
12. Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
13. Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
14. Vocalism
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 Why, who makes much of a miracle?
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 [1870-71]
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
BOOK XXV
1. Proud Music of the Storm
BOOK XXVI
1. Passage to India
BOOK XXVII
1. Prayer of Columbus
BOOK XXVIII
1. The Sleepers
2. Transpositions
BOOK XXIX
1. To Think of Time
BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
1. Darest Thou Now O Soul
2. Whispers of Heavenly Death
3. Chanting the Square Deific
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 the Ploughman Ploughing
18. Pensive and Faltering
BOOK XXXI
1. Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
2. A Paumanok Picture
BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
1. Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
2. Faces
3. The Mystic Trumpeter
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 [June 25, 1876]
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
BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING
1. As the Time Draws Nigh
2. Years of the Modern
3. Ashes of Soldiers
4. Thoughts
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 [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
11. As They Draw to a Close
12. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
13. The Untold Want
14. Portals
15. These Carols
16. Now Finale to the Shore
17. So Long!
BOOK XXXIV. 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] I - The Pilot in the Mist
21. [FANCIES AT NAVESINK] II - Had I the Choice
22. [FANCIES AT NAVESINK] III - You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
23. [FANCIES AT NAVESINK] IV - Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
24. [FANCIES AT NAVESINK] V - And Yet Not You Alone
25. [FANCIES AT NAVESINK] VI - Proudly the Flood Comes In
26. [FANCIES AT NAVESINK] VII - By That Long Scan of Waves
27.
28. Election Day, November, 1884
29. With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
30. Death of General Grant
31. Red Jacket (From Aloft)
32. Washington's Monument February, 1885
33. Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
34. Broadway
35. To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
36. Old Salt Kossabone
37. The Dead Tenor
38. Continuities
39. Yonnondio
40. Life
41. "Going Somewhere"
42. Small the Theme of My Chant
43. True Conquerors
44. The United States to Old World Critics
45. The Calming Thought of All
46. Thanks in Old Age
47. Life and Death
48. The Voice of the Rain
49. Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
50. While Not the Past Forgetting
51. The Dying Veteran
52. Stronger Lessons
53. A Prairie Sunset
54. Twenty Years
55. Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
56. Twilight
57. You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
58. Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
59. The Dead Emperor
60. As the Greek's Signal Flame
61. The Dismantled Ship
62. Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
63. An Evening Lull
64. Old Age's Lambent Peaks
65. After the Supper and Talk
BOOK XXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
1. Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
2. Lingering Last Drops
3. Good-Bye My Fancy Good-bye my fancy
4. On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
5. MY 71st Year
6. Apparitions
7. The Pallid Wreath
8. An Ended Day
9. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's
10. To the Pending Year
11. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
12. Long, Long Hence
13. Bravo, Paris Exposition!
14. Interpolation Sounds
15. To the Sun-Set Breeze
16. Old Chants
17. A Christmas Greeting
18. Sounds of the Winter
19. A Twilight
20. When the Full-Grown Poet Came
21. Osceola
22. A Voice from Death
23. A Persian Lesson
24. The Commonplace
25. "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"
26. Mirages
27. L. of G.'s Purport
28. The Unexpress'd
29. Grand Is the Seen
30. Unseen Buds
31. Good-Bye My Fancy!
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