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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

• 25.Starting from Paumanok 3 parts

Book III

• 26.Song of Myself 11 parts

Children of Adam

• 27.To the Garden the World
• 28.From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
• 29.I Sing the Body Electric 2 parts
• 30.A Woman Waits for Me
• 31.Spontaneous Me
• 32.One Hour to Madness and Joy
• 33.Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
• 34.Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
• 35.We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
• 36.O Hymen! O Hymenee!
• 37.I Am He That Aches with Love
• 38.Native Moments
• 39.Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
• 40.I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
• 41.Facing West from California’s Shores
• 42.As Adam Early in the Morning

Calamus

• 43.In Paths Untrodden
• 44.Scented Herbage of My Breast
• 45.Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
• 46.For You, O Democracy
• 47.These I Singing in Spring
• 48.Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
• 49.Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
• 50.The Base of All Metaphysics
• 51.Recorders Ages Hence
• 52.When I Heard at the Close of the Day
• 53.Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
• 54.Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
• 55.Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
• 56.Trickle Drops
• 57.City of Orgies
• 58.Behold This Swarthy Face
• 59.I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
• 60.To a Stranger
• 61.This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
• 62.I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
• 63.The Prairie-Grass Dividing
• 64.When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
• 65.We Two Boys Together Clinging
• 66.A Promise to California
• 67.Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
• 68.No Labor-Saving Machine
• 69.A Glimpse
• 70.A Leaf for Hand in Hand
• 71.Earth, My Likeness
• 72.I Dream’d in a Dream
• 73.What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
• 74.To the East and to the West
• 75.Sometimes with One I Love
• 76.To a Western Boy
• 77.Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
• 78.Among the Multitude
• 79.O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
• 80.That Shadow My Likeness
• 81.Full of Life Now

Book VI

• 82.Salut au Monde! 2 parts

Book VII

• 83.Song of the Open Road 2 parts

Book VIII

• 84.Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 2 parts

Book IX

• 85.Song of the Answerer

Book X

• 86.Our Old Feuillage

Book XI

• 87.A Song of Joys 2 parts

Book XII

• 88.Song of the Broad-Axe 2 parts

Book XIII

• 89.Song of the Exposition 2 parts

Book XIV

• 90.Song of the Redwood-Tree

Book XV

• 91.A Song for Occupations 2 parts

Book XVI

• 92.A Song of the Rolling Earth
• 93.Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

Birds of Passage

• 94.Song of the Universal
• 95.Pioneers! O Pioneers!
• 96.To You
• 97.France [the 18th Year of these States
• 98.Myself and Mine
• 99.Year of Meteors [1859-60
• 100.With Antecedents

Book XVIII

• 101.A Broadway Pageant

Sea-Drift

• 102.Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 2 parts
• 103.As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
• 104.Tears
• 105.To the Man-of-War-Bird
• 106.Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
• 107.On the Beach at Night
• 108.The World below the Brine
• 109.On the Beach at Night Alone
• 110.Song for All Seas, All Ships
• 111.Patroling Barnegat
• 112.After the Sea-Ship

By the Roadside

• 113.A Boston Ballad [1854]
• 114.Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
• 115.A Hand-Mirror
• 116.Gods
• 117.Germs
• 118.Thoughts
• 119.When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
• 120.Perfections
• 121.O Me! O Life!
• 122.To a President
• 123.I Sit and Look Out
• 124.To Rich Givers
• 125.The Dalliance of the Eagles
• 126.Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
• 127.A Farm Picture
• 128.A Child’s Amaze
• 129.The Runner
• 130.Beautiful Women
• 131.Mother and Babe
• 132.Thought
• 133.Visor’d
• 134.Thought
• 135.Gliding O’er all
• 136.Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
• 137.Thought
• 138.To Old Age
• 139.Locations and Times
• 140.Offerings
• 141.To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]

Drum-Taps

• 142.First O Songs for a Prelude
• 143.Eighteen Sixty-One
• 144.Beat! Beat! Drums!
• 145.From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
• 146.Song of the Banner at Daybreak 2 parts
• 147.Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
• 148.Virginia--The West
• 149.City of Ships
• 150.The Centenarian’s Story
• 151.Cavalry Crossing a Ford
• 152.Bivouac on a Mountain Side
• 153.An Army Corps on the March
• 154.By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
• 155.Come Up from the Fields Father
• 156.Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
• 157.A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
• 158.A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
• 159.As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
• 160.Not the Pilot
• 161.Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
• 162.The Wound-Dresser
• 163.Long, Too Long America
• 164.Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
• 165.Dirge for Two Veterans
• 166.Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
• 167.I Saw Old General at Bay
• 168.The Artilleryman’s Vision
• 169.Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
• 170.Not Youth Pertains to Me
• 171.Race of Veterans
• 172.World Take Good Notice
• 173.O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
• 174.Look Down Fair Moon
• 175.Reconciliation
• 176.How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
• 177.As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
• 178.Delicate Cluster
• 179.To a Certain Civilian
• 180.Lo, Victress on the Peaks
• 181.Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
• 182.Adieu to a Soldier
• 183.Turn O Libertad
• 184.To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod

Memories of President Lincoln

• 185.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 2 parts
• 186.O Captain! My Captain!
• 187.Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865
• 188.This Dust Was Once the Man

Book XXIII

• 189.By Blue Ontario’s Shore 3 parts
• 190.Reversals

Autumn Rivulets

• 191.As Consequent, Etc.
• 192.The Return of the Heroes
• 193.There Was a Child Went Forth
• 194.Old Ireland
• 195.The City Dead-House
• 196.This Compost
• 197.To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
• 198.Unnamed Land
• 199.Song of Prudence
• 200.The Singer in the Prison
• 201.Warble for Lilac-Time
• 202.Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
• 203.Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
• 204.Vocalism
• 205.To Him That Was Crucified
• 206.You Felons on Trial in Courts
• 207.Laws for Creations
• 208.To a Common Prostitute
• 209.I Was Looking a Long While
• 210.Thought
• 211.Miracles
• 212.Sparkles from the Wheel
• 213.To a Pupil
• 214.Unfolded out of the Folds
• 215.What Am I After All
• 216.Kosmos
• 217.Others May Praise What They Like
• 218.Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
• 219.Tests
• 220.The Torch
• 221.O Star of France [1870-71]
• 222.The Ox-Tamer
• 223.An Old Man’s Thought of School
• 224.Wandering at Morn
• 225.Italian Music in Dakota
• 226.With All Thy Gifts
• 227.My Picture-Gallery
• 228.The Prairie States

Book XXV

• 229.Proud Music of the Storm

Book XXVI

• 230.Passage to India 2 parts

Book XXVII

• 231.Prayer of Columbus

Book XXVIII

• 232.The Sleepers 2 parts
• 233.Transpositions

Book XXIX

• 234.To Think of Time 2 parts

Whispers of Heavenly Death

• 235.Darest Thou Now O Soul
• 236.Whispers of Heavenly Death
• 237.Chanting the Square Deific
• 238.Of Him I Love Day and Night
• 239.Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
• 240.As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
• 241.Assurances
• 242.Quicksand Years
• 243.That Music Always Round Me
• 244.What Ship Puzzled at Sea
• 245.A Noiseless Patient Spider
• 246.O Living Always, Always Dying
• 247.To One Shortly to Die
• 248.Night on the Prairies
• 249.Thought
• 250.The Last Invocation
• 251.As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
• 252.Pensive and Faltering

Book XXXI

• 253.Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
• 254.A Paumanok Picture

From Noon to Starry Night

• 255.Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
• 256.Faces
• 257.The Mystic Trumpeter
• 258.To a Locomotive in Winter
• 259.O Magnet-South
• 260.Mannahatta
• 261.All Is Truth
• 262.A Riddle Song
• 263.Excelsior
• 264.Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
• 265.Thoughts
• 266.Mediums
• 267.Weave in, My Hardy Life
• 268.Spain, 1873-74
• 269.By Broad Potomac’s Shore
• 270.From Far Dakota’s Canyons [June 25, 1876]
• 271.Old War-Dreams
• 272.Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
• 273.What Best I See in Thee
• 274.Spirit That Form’d This Scene
• 275.As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
• 276.A Clear Midnight

Songs of Parting

• 277.As the Time Draws Nigh
• 278.Years of the Modern
• 279.Ashes of Soldiers
• 280.Thoughts
• 281.Song at Sunset
• 282.As at Thy Portals Also Death
• 283.My Legacy
• 284.Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
• 285.Camps of Green
• 286.The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
• 287.As They Draw to a Close
• 288.Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
• 289.The Untold Want
• 290.Portals
• 291.These Carols
• 292.Now Finale to the Shore
• 293.So Long!

Sands at Seventy

• 294.Mannahatta
• 295.Paumanok
• 296.From Montauk Point
• 297.To Those Who’ve Fail’d
• 298.A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
• 299.The Bravest Soldiers
• 300.A Font of Type
• 301.As I Sit Writing Here
• 302.My Canary Bird
• 303.Queries to My Seventieth Year
• 304.The Wallabout Martyrs
• 305.The First Dandelion
• 306.America
• 307.Memories
• 308.To-Day and Thee
• 309.After the Dazzle of Day
• 310.Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
• 311.Out of May’s Shows Selected
• 312.Halcyon Days
• 313.FANCIES AT NAVESINK
• 314.Election Day, November, 1884
• 315.With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
• 316.Death of General Grant
• 317.Red Jacket (From Aloft)
• 318.Washington’s Monument February, 1885
• 319.Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
• 320.Broadway
• 321.To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
• 322.Old Salt Kossabone
• 323.The Dead Tenor
• 324.Continuities
• 325.Yonnondio
• 326.Life
• 327.“Going Somewhere”
• 328.Small the Theme of My Chant
• 329.True Conquerors
• 330.The United States to Old World Critics
• 331.The Calming Thought of All
• 332.Thanks in Old Age
• 333.Life and Death
• 334.The Voice of the Rain
• 335.Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
• 336.While Not the Past Forgetting
• 337.The Dying Veteran
• 338.Stronger Lessons
• 339.A Prairie Sunset
• 340.Twenty Years
• 341.Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
• 342.Twilight
• 343.You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
• 344.Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
• 345.The Dead Emperor
• 346.As the Greek’s Signal Flame
• 347.The Dismantled Ship
• 348.Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
• 349.An Evening Lull
• 350.Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
• 351.After the Supper and Talk
• 352.Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
• 353.Lingering Last Drops
• 354.Good-Bye My Fancy
• 355.On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
• 356.MY 71st Year
• 357.Apparitions
• 358.The Pallid Wreath
• 359.An Ended Day
• 360.Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
• 361.To the Pending Year
• 362.Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
• 363.Long, Long Hence
• 364.Bravo, Paris Exposition!
• 365.Interpolation Sounds
• 366.To the Sun-Set Breeze
• 367.Old Chants
• 368.A Christmas Greeting
• 369.Sounds of the Winter
• 370.A Twilight Song
• 371.When the Full-Grown Poet Came
• 372.Osceola
• 373.A Voice from Death
• 374.A Persian Lesson
• 375.The Commonplace
• 376.“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
• 377.Mirages
• 378.L. of G.’s Purport
• 379.The Unexpress’d
• 380.Grand Is the Seen
• 381.Unseen Buds
• 382.Good-Bye My Fancy!