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WALT WHITMAN

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Poems found: 482

A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN

A NOISELESS, PATIENT SPIDER

A PROMISE TO CALIFORNIA

A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM

ABOARD AT A SHIP'S HELM

AFTER THE SEA-SHIP, AFTER THE WHISTLING WINDS

AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING

AS AT THY PORTALS ALSO DEATH

AS CONSEQUENT FROM STORE OF SUMMER RAINS

AS I WATCH'D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING

AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS

BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME

CITY OF SHIPS!

DAREST THOU NOW O SOUL

DELICATE CLUSTER! FLAG OF TEEMING LIFE!

EARTH, MY LIKENESS

FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORES

FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS

HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TODAY

I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH AMOROUS LOVE

I DREAMED IN A DREAM I SAW A CITY INVINCIBLE

I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING

I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY

IN CABIN'D SHIPS AT SEA

JOY, SHIPMATE, JOY!

LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA

LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON AND BATHE THIS SCENE

NIGHT ON THE PRAIRIES

NO LABOR-SAVING MACHINE

NOW FINALE TO THE SHORE

O STAR OF FRANCE

O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY

OF THAT BLITHE THROAT OF THINE FROM ARTIC BLEAK AND BLANK

OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES

ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE

ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT

OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING

RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS

SHUT NOT YOUR DOORS TO ME PROUD LIBRARIES

SPIRIT THAT FORM'D THIS SCENE (WRITTEN IN PLATTE CANON, COLORADO)

THANKS IN OLD AGE - THANKS ERE I GO

THE WORLD BELOW THE BRINE

THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING! FLAG OF STARS!

THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD

TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST

VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT

WE TWO BOYS TOGETHER CLINGING

WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D

WEAVE IN, WEAVE IN, MY HARDY LIFE

WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND?

WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER

WHEN THE FULL-GROWN POET CAME

WITH ANTECEDENTS

A BROADWAY PAGEANT

A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE

A CLEAR MIDNIGHT

A FARM PICTURE

A GLIMPSE

A HAND-MIRROR

A PRAIRIE SUNSET

A VOICE PROPHETIC

ALL IS TRUTH

AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH

AN EVENING LULL

AS I SIT WRITING HERE

AS THE GREEK'S SIGNAL FLAME

BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE

BROADWAY

BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE

CAMPS OF GREEN

CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD

CITY OF ORGIES

COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER

CONTINUITIES

CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY

DEATH'S VALLEY

DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS

EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE

EPITAPH FOR LINCOLN

ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS

EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES

FACES

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 2

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 6

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 7

FAST ANCHOR'D ETERNAL O LOVE!

FOR THE INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY

FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY

FRANCE; THE 18TH YEAR OF THESE STATES

FULL OF LIFE NOW

GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN

GOOD-BYE MY FANCY!

GRAND IS THE SEEN

HALCYON DAYS

I HEAR AMERICA SINGING

I HEARD YOUR SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES

I SIT AND LOOK OUT

ITALIAN MUSIC IN DAKOTA (THE SEVENTEENTH - THE FINEST REGIMENTAL BAND)

L. OF G.'S PURPORT

MANAHATTA

MANHATTAN ARMING

MANNAHATTA

MIRACLES

MY 71ST YEAR

MY PICTURE-GALLERY

NOT THE PILOT

NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

O MAGNET-SOUTH

O YOU WHOM I OFTEN AND SILENTLY COME

OLD WAR-DREAMS

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY

ONE'S-SELF I SING

ORANGE BUDS BY MAIL FROM FLORIDA

OSCEOLA

OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK

PASSAGE TO INDIA

PATROLING BARNEGAT

PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!

POETS TO COME

PRAYER OF COLUMBUS

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN

RECONCILIATION

ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE

SO LONG!

SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE

SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS

SONG OF MYSELF

SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAY-BREAK

SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE

SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD

SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865)

STARTING FROM PAUMANOK

TEARS

THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION

THE BASE OF ALL METAPHYSICS

THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY

THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE

THE COMMONPLACE

THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES

THE DISMANTLED SHIP

THE FIRST DANDELION

THE LAST INVOCATION

THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER

THE OX-TAMER

THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING

THE RUNNER

THE SHIP STARTING

THE SINGER IN THE PRISON

THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS (MIDNIGHT, SEPT. 19-20, 1881)

THE VOICE OF THE RAIN

THE WALLABOUT MARTYRS

THE WOUND-DRESSER

THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH

THIS COMPOST: 1.

THIS COMPOST: 2.

THOUGHT (1)

THOUGHT (2)

TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN

TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE

TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE

TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER

TO A PRESIDENT

TO A WESTERN BOY

TO FOREIGN LANDS

TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED

TO OLD AGE

TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE

TO RICH GIVERS

TO THE GARDEN THE WORLD

TO THE MAN-OF-WAR-BIRD

TO THE PENDING YEAR

TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD

TO THINK OF TIME

TURN O LIBERTAD

UNSEEN BUDS

VIRGINIA - THE WEST

WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION

WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, FEBRUARY, 1885

WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR

WHEN I HEARD AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY

WHEN I PERUSE THE CONQUER'D FAME

WHEN I READ THE BOOK

WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH

YEARS OF THE MODERN

YONNONIDO

YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME

YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT

A LEAF FOR HAND IN HAND

A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS

AFTER THE DAZZLE OF DAY IS GONE

AGES AND AGES RETURNING AT INTERVALS

AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS

ARE YOU THE NEW PERSON DRAWN TOWARD ME?

AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO

AS I PONDERED IN SILENCE

AS I WALK THESE BROAD MAJESTIC DAYS OF PEACE

AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS'D ME

AS THEY DRAW TO A CLOSE

FOR HIM I SING

FROM FAR DAKOTA'S CANONS; June 25, 1876

GLIDING O'ER ALL, THROUGH ALL

HAST NEVER COME TO THEE AN HOUR

HOURS CONTINUING LONG, SORE AND HEAVY-HEARTED

IN PATHS UNTRODDEN

IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS

LAWS FOR CREATIONS

LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS

LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME

MYSELF AND MINE GYMNASTIC EVER

NAY, TELL ME NOT TO-DAY THE PUBLISH'D SHAME

NOT HEAT FLAMES UP AND CONSUMES

NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST ONLY

NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME

O LIVING ALWAYS, ALWAYS DYING!

ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN!

OTHERS MAY PRAISE WHAT THEY LIKE

PENSIVE AND FALTERING

PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM

RECORDERS AGES HENCE

SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY BREAST

SO FAR, AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END

SOLID, IRONICAL, ROLLING ORB

SOON SHALL THE WINTER'S FOIL BE HERE

STILL THOUGH THE ONE I SING

THINK OF THE SOUL

TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS

TO THEE OLD CAUSE!

TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D, IN ASPIRATION VAST

WANDERING AT MORN

WHILE NOT THE PAST FORGETTING

WHO IS NOW READING THIS?

WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?

WHOEVER YOU ARE HOLDING ME NOW IN HAND

WITH ALL THY GIFTS AMERICA

WITH HUSKY-HAUGHTY LIPS, O SEA

YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME

YET, YET, YE DOWNCAST HOURS, I KNOW YE ALSO

YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS

GOING SOMEWHERE'

LEAVES OF GRASS': TITLE PAGE

THE ROUNDED CATALOGUE DIVINE COMPLETE'

A BOSTON BALLAD

A CHILD'S AMAZE

A CHRISTMAS GREETING; FROM A NORTHERN START-GROUP TO A SOUTHERN

A FONT OF TYPE

A KISS TO THE BRIDE; MARRIAGE OF NELLY GRANT, MAY 21, 1874

A PAUMANOK PICTURE

A PERSIAN LESSON

A RIDDLE SONG

A SONG OF JOYS

A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH

A THOUGHT OF COLUMBUS

A TWILIGHT SONG

A VOICE FROM DEATH

A WOMAN WAITS FOR ME

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BORN FEB. 12, 1809

ADIEU TO A SOLDIER

AFTER AN INTERVAL

AFTER THE SUPPER AND TALK

AMERICA

AMONG THE MULTITUDE

AN ENDED DAY

APPARITIONS

AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH

ASHES OF SOLDIERS

ASPOSTROPH

ASSURANCES

BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME

BEGINNERS

BEGINNING MY STUDIES

BEHOLD THIS SWARTHY FACE

BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!

BY BROAD POTOMAC'S SHORE

CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC

DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT

DEBRIS

EIDOLONS

ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884

ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 1

ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 2

ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 3

ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 4

EXCELSIOR

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 1. THE PILOT IN THE MIST

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 3

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 4

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 5

FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 8

FROM MONTAUK POINT

FROM MY LAST YEARS

GERMS

GODS (2)

GREAT ARE THE MYTHS

HERE THE FRAILEST LEAVES OF ME

HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865)

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC

I WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE

IN FORMER SONGS

INTERPOLATION SOUNDS

KOSMOS

LESSONS

LIFE

LIFE AND DEATH

LINGERING LAST DROPS

LOCATIONS AND TIMES

LONG, LONG HENCE

ME IMPERTURBE

MEDIUMS

MEMORIES

MIRAGES

MOTHER AND BABE

MY CANARY BIRD

MY LEGACY

NATIVE MOMENTS

NOT MEAGRE, LATENT BOUGHS ALONE

NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME

O HYMEN! O HYMENEE!

O ME! O LIFE!

O SUN OF REAL PEACE

OF HIM I LOVE DAY AND NIGHT

OF MANY A SMUTCH'D DEED REMINISCENT

OF THE VISAGES OF THINGS

OFFERINGS

OLD AGE'S LAMBENT PEAKS

OLD AGE'S SHIP AND CRAFTY DEATH'S

OLD CHANTS

OLD IRELAND

OLD SALT KOSSABONE

ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES

ON THE SAME PICTURE (DEATH'S VALLEY)

ONE HOUR TO MADNESS AND JOY

OUR OLD FEUILLAGE

OUT OF MAY'S SHOWS SELECTED

OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN THE CROWD

OUTLINES FOR A TOMB (G.P., BURIED 1870)

PAUMANOK

PENSIVE ON HER DEAD GAZING

PERFECTIONS

POEM OF REMEMBRANCE FOR A GIRL OR A BOY OF THESE STATES

PORTALS

QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR

QUICKSAND YEARS

RACE OF VETERANS

RED JACKET (FROM ALOFT)

RESPONDEZ!

REVERSALS

ROAMING IN THOUGHT (AFTER READING HEGEL)

SAIL OUT FOR GOOD, EIDOLON YACHT!

SALUT AU MONDE

SAVANTISM

SAYS

SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER

SMALL THE THEME OF MY CHANT

SONG AT SUNSET

SONG OF PRUDENCE

SONG OF THE ANSWERER

SONG OF THE EXPOSITION

SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE

SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL

SOUNDS OF THE WINTER

SPAIN, 1873-1874

SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL

SPONTANEOUS ME

STATES!

STRONGER LESSONS

SUPPLEMENT HOURS

TESTS

THAT MUSIC ALWAYS ROUND ME

THAT SHADOW MY LIKENESS

THE BEAUTIFUL SWIMMER

THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP

THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS

THE CALMING THOUGH OF ALL

THE DEAD EMPEROR

THE DEAD TENOR

THE DEAR LOVE OF COMRADES

THE DYING VETERAN; A LONG ISLAND INCIDENT - EARLY PART PRESENT CENTURY

THE FEW DROPS KNOWN

THE PALLID WREATH

THE PRAIRIE STATES

THE RETURN OF THE HEROES

THE SLEEPERS (VERSION OF 1881)

THE TORCH

THE UNEXPRESS'D

THE UNITED STATES TO OLD WORLD CRITICS

THE UNTOLD WANT

THEN SHALL PERCEIVE

THESE CAROLS

THESE I SINGING IN SPRING

THIS DAY, O SOUL

THIS MOMENT YEARNING AND THOUGHTFUL

THOU ORB ALOFT FULL-DAZZLING

THOU READER

THOUGHT (3)

THOUGHT (4)

THOUGHT (5)

THOUGHT (6)

THOUGHTS (1)

THOUGHTS (2)

THOUGHTS (3)

TO A CERTAIN CANTATRICE

TO A HISTORIAN

TO A PUPIL

TO A STRANGER

TO BE AT ALL

TO SOAR IN FREEDOM AND IN FULNESS OF POWER

TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD

TO THE SUN-SET BREEZE

TO YOU (1)

TO YOU (2)

TO YOU (3)

TO-DAY AND THEE

TRANSPOSITIONS

TRICKLE DROPS

TRUE CONQUERORS

TWENTY YEARS

TWILIGHT

TWO RIVULETS

UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS

UNNAMED LANDS

VISOR'D

VOCALISM

WARBLE FOR LILAC TIME

WHAT AM I AFTER ALL

WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED?

WHAT SHIP PUZZLED AT SEA

WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE

YEAR OF METEORS (1859-60)

COME CLOSER TO ME

GREAT IS JUSTICE

I AM AN ACME OF THINGS ACCOMPLISHED

I SAW THE VISION OF ARMIES

I TOO MANY AND MANY A TIME CROSS'D THE RIVER OF OLD

KEEP HEART, O COMRADE, GOD MAY BE DELAYED

PUBLISH MY NAME AND HANG UP MY PICTURE , FR. RECORDERS AGES HENCE

SOUL, REACHING, THROWING OUT FOR LOVE

THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO

BOSTON BALLAD (DIFFERENT VERSION)

CAROL [SONG] OF OCCUPATIONS', SELS.

POEM OF JOYS, SELS.

SONG FOR THE STATES

WEDDING OUT WEST

AGAIN THEY SURROUND THEE

AMERICA TO THE OLD WORLD BARDS

AS A STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE

BARROW

DEATH

GODS (1)

I AM THE POET

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (DIFFERENT VERSION)

I STAND AND LOOK

IN PRAISE OF DEATH

LEAVES OF GRASS (1855 EDITION)

LIVE OAK, WITH MOSS

NOW LIFT ME CLOSE

SAILING THE MISSISSIPPI AT MIDNIGHT

SO LONG, SELS.

SONG OF MYSELF: 21, SELS.

SONG OF THE ANSWERER (DIFFERENT VERSION)

SONG OF THE EXPOSITION

SPECIMEN DAYS: A JULY AFTERNOON BY THE POND

SPECIMEN DAYS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN

SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER

SPECIMEN DAYS: LOAFING IN THE WOODS

SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL

SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS

STALLION, FR. SONG OF MYSELF

SUNRISE

EIGHTEENTH PRESIDENCY, SELS.

LESSON OF A TREE

SLEEPERS

TWO MYSTERIES

TWO MYSTERIES

WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT

TO THINK OF TIME (DIFFERENT VERSION)

TO WHAT YOU SAID

WHAT ENDURES?, FR. SONG OF THE BLOOD-AXE

WHEN LILAC LAST



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