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Chapter 1
Epigraph
The Soul calls to the Body to write verses together, affirming their unity. The poet signs his name to these verses, hoping that after death or in other spheres, he may continue to own and resume these chants, which are rooted in the earth's elements.
Chapter 2
Leaves of Grass
This foundational chapter introduces the poet's expansive vision of democracy, individuality, and the unity of body and soul, celebrating nature, comradeship, and the American spirit.
Chapter 3
Inscriptions
The opening poems of 'Inscriptions' establish the poet's identity, his democratic vision, and his role as a unifier of soul and body, celebrating individuality, comradeship, and the American spirit.
Chapter 4
One's-Self I Sing
The poet declares his intent to sing of the individual self, yet simultaneously of the democratic collective. He celebrates the complete human form—body and soul, male and female—and the modern individual acting freely under divine laws.
Chapter 5
As I Ponder’d in Silence
The poet reflects on his work and is confronted by a phantom representing the ancient poetic tradition that insists war is the only enduring theme. The poet responds by asserting that his own book wages a greater war—one for life, death, body, and soul—and that he too promotes brave soldiers in this spiritual battle.
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709 more companions → free preview- Chapter 6In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
- Chapter 7To Foreign Lands
- Chapter 8To a Historian
- Chapter 9To Thee Old Cause
- Chapter 10Eidólons
- Chapter 11For Him I Sing
- Chapter 12When I Read the Book
- Chapter 13Beginning My Studies
- Chapter 14Beginners
- Chapter 15To the States
- Chapter 16On Journeys Through the States
- Chapter 17To a Certain Cantatrice
- Chapter 18Me Imperturbe
- Chapter 19Savantism
- Chapter 20The Ship Starting
- Chapter 21I Hear America Singing
- Chapter 22What Place Is Besieged?
- Chapter 23Still Though the One I Sing
- Chapter 24Shut Not Your Doors
- Chapter 25Poets to Come
- Chapter 26To You
- Chapter 27Thou Reader
- Chapter 28Starting from Paumanok
- Chapter 29Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 302
- Chapter 31Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 32Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 33Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 34Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 35The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 36The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 37Chapter 9
- Chapter 38The Poet as Arbiter and Equalizer
- Chapter 39The Mission of Poets
- Chapter 40The Poet's Vocation in America
- Chapter 41Chapter 13
- Chapter 42Fall Behind Me States
- Chapter 43The Individual as the Center of All
- Chapter 44Nativity and Self
- Chapter 45America Is You and Me
- Chapter 46Confronting the Cosmos
- Chapter 47Thus by Blue Ontario's Shore
- Chapter 48Song of Myself
- Chapter 49Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 502
- Chapter 51Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 52Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 53Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 54Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 55The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 56The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 57Chapter 9
- Chapter 58The Poet as Arbiter and Equalizer
- Chapter 59The Mission of Poets
- Chapter 60The Poet's Vocation in America
- Chapter 61Chapter 13
- Chapter 62Fall Behind Me States
- Chapter 63The Individual as the Center of All
- Chapter 64Nativity and Self
- Chapter 65America Is You and Me
- Chapter 66Confronting the Cosmos
- Chapter 67Thus by Blue Ontario's Shore
- Chapter 68Bards of the Great Idea
- Chapter 69Song of Myself, Section 21
- Chapter 7022
- Chapter 71Endless Unfolding of Words of Ages
- Chapter 72Walt Whitman, a Kosmos
- Chapter 73Chapter 25
- Chapter 74Now I Will Do Nothing But Listen
- Chapter 75Chapter 27
- Chapter 76The Touch of Identity
- Chapter 77Chapter 29
- Chapter 78All Truths Wait in All Things
- Chapter 79The Miracle of the Common
- Chapter 80The Animal Self
- Chapter 81The Universal Self
- Chapter 82The Massacre at Goliad
- Chapter 83The Old-Time Sea-Fight
- Chapter 84The Midnight Wreck
- Chapter 85Chapter 37: The Prisoner's Lament
- Chapter 86Chapter 38
- Chapter 87The Friendly and Flowing Savage
- Chapter 88Flaunt of the Sunshine
- Chapter 89The Poet as Universal Equalizer
- Chapter 90A Call in the Midst of the Crowd
- Chapter 91Chapter 43
- Chapter 92Chapter 44
- Chapter 93O Span of Youth!
- Chapter 94The Perpetual Journey
- Chapter 95The Teacher of Athletes
- Chapter 96Chapter 48
- Chapter 97Death, Life, and the Eternal Cycle
- Chapter 98The Unspoken Essence
- Chapter 99Chapter 51
- Chapter 100The Barbaric Yawp
- Chapter 101Children of Adam
- Chapter 102To the Garden the World
- Chapter 103From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
- Chapter 104I Sing the Body Electric
- Chapter 105Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 1062
- Chapter 107Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 108Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 109Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 110Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 111The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 112The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 113Chapter 9
- Chapter 114A Woman Waits for Me
- Chapter 115Spontaneous Me
- Chapter 116One Hour to Madness and Joy
- Chapter 117Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
- Chapter 118Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
- Chapter 119We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
- Chapter 120O Hymen! O Hymenee!
- Chapter 121I Am He That Aches with Love
- Chapter 122Native Moments
- Chapter 123Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
- Chapter 124I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
- Chapter 125Facing West from California’s Shores
- Chapter 126As Adam Early in the Morning
- Chapter 127Calamus
- Chapter 128In Paths Untrodden
- Chapter 129Scented Herbage of My Breast
- Chapter 130Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
- Chapter 131For You O Democracy
- Chapter 132These I Singing in Spring
- Chapter 133Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
- Chapter 134Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
- Chapter 135The Base of All Metaphysics
- Chapter 136Recorders Ages Hence
- Chapter 137When I Heard at the Close of the Day
- Chapter 138Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
- Chapter 139Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
- Chapter 140Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
- Chapter 141Trickle Drops
- Chapter 142City of Orgies
- Chapter 143Behold This Swarthy Face
- Chapter 144I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
- Chapter 145To a Stranger
- Chapter 146This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
- Chapter 147I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
- Chapter 148The Prairie-Grass Dividing
- Chapter 149When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
- Chapter 150We Two Boys Together Clinging
- Chapter 151A Promise to California
- Chapter 152Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
- Chapter 153No Labor-Saving Machine
- Chapter 154A Glimpse
- Chapter 155A Leaf for Hand in Hand
- Chapter 156Earth, My Likeness
- Chapter 157I Dream’d in a Dream
- Chapter 158What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
- Chapter 159To the East and to the West
- Chapter 160Sometimes with One I Love
- Chapter 161To a Western Boy
- Chapter 162Fast-Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
- Chapter 163Among the Multitude
- Chapter 164O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
- Chapter 165That Shadow My Likeness
- Chapter 166Full of Life Now
- Chapter 167Salut au Monde!
- Chapter 168Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 1692
- Chapter 170Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 171Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 172Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 173Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 174The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 175The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 176Chapter 9
- Chapter 177The Poet as Arbiter and Equalizer
- Chapter 178The Mission of Poets
- Chapter 179The Poet's Vocation in America
- Chapter 180Chapter 13
- Chapter 181Song of the Open Road
- Chapter 182Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 1832
- Chapter 184Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 185Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 186Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 187Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 188The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 189The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 190Chapter 9
- Chapter 191The Poet as Arbiter and Equalizer
- Chapter 192The Mission of Poets
- Chapter 193The Poet's Vocation in America
- Chapter 194Chapter 13
- Chapter 195Fall Behind Me States
- Chapter 196The Individual as the Center of All
- Chapter 197Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Chapter 198Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 1992
- Chapter 200Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 201Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 202Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 203Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 204The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 205The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 206Chapter 9
- Chapter 207Song of the Answerer
- Chapter 208Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2092
- Chapter 210Our Old Feuillage
- Chapter 211A Song of Joys
- Chapter 212Song of the Broad-Axe
- Chapter 213Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2142
- Chapter 215Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 216Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 217Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 218Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 219The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 220The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 221Chapter 9
- Chapter 222The Poet as Arbiter and Equalizer
- Chapter 223The Mission of Poets
- Chapter 224The Poet's Vocation in America
- Chapter 225Song of the Exposition
- Chapter 226Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2272
- Chapter 228Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 229Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 230Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 231Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 232The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 233The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 234Chapter 9
- Chapter 235Song of the Redwood-Tree
- Chapter 236Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2372
- Chapter 238Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 239A Song for Occupations
- Chapter 240Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2412
- Chapter 242Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 243Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 244Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 245Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 246A Song of the Rolling Earth
- Chapter 247Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2482
- Chapter 249Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 250Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 251Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
- Chapter 252Birds of Passage
- Chapter 253Song of the Universal
- Chapter 254Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2552
- Chapter 256Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 257Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 258Pioneers! O Pioneers!
- Chapter 259To You
- Chapter 260France
- Chapter 261Myself and Mine
- Chapter 262Year of Meteors
- Chapter 263With Antecedents
- Chapter 264Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2652
- Chapter 266Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 267A Broadway Pageant
- Chapter 268Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2692
- Chapter 270Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 271Sea-Drift
- Chapter 272Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- Chapter 273As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
- Chapter 274Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2752
- Chapter 276Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 277Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 278Tears
- Chapter 279To the Man-of-War-Bird
- Chapter 280Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
- Chapter 281On the Beach at Night
- Chapter 282The World Below the Brine
- Chapter 283On the Beach at Night Alone
- Chapter 284Song for All Seas, All Ships
- Chapter 285Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 2862
- Chapter 287Patroling Barnegat
- Chapter 288After the Sea-Ship
- Chapter 289By the Roadside
- Chapter 290A Boston Ballad
- Chapter 291Europe
- Chapter 292A Hand-Mirror
- Chapter 293Gods
- Chapter 294Germs
- Chapter 295Thoughts
- Chapter 296When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- Chapter 297Perfections
- Chapter 298O Me! O Life!
- Chapter 299To a President
- Chapter 300I Sit and Look Out
- Chapter 301To Rich Givers
- Chapter 302The Dalliance of the Eagles
- Chapter 303Roaming in Thought
- Chapter 304A Farm Picture
- Chapter 305A Child's Amaze
- Chapter 306The Runner
- Chapter 307Beautiful Women
- Chapter 308Mother and Babe
- Chapter 309Thought
- Chapter 310Visor'd
- Chapter 311Thought
- Chapter 312Gliding O'er All
- Chapter 313Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
- Chapter 314Thought
- Chapter 315To Old Age
- Chapter 316Locations and Times
- Chapter 317Offerings
- Chapter 318To the States
- Chapter 319Drum-Taps
- Chapter 320First O Songs for a Prelude
- Chapter 321Eighteen Sixty-One
- Chapter 322Beat! Beat! Drums!
- Chapter 323From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
- Chapter 324Song of the Banner at Daybreak
- Chapter 325Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
- Chapter 326Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 3272
- Chapter 328Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 329Virginia—The West
- Chapter 330City of Ships
- Chapter 331The Centenarian's Story
- Chapter 332Cavalry Crossing a Ford
- Chapter 333Bivouac on a Mountain Side
- Chapter 334An Army Corps on the March
- Chapter 335By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
- Chapter 336Come Up from the Fields Father
- Chapter 337Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
- Chapter 338A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
- Chapter 339A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
- Chapter 340As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
- Chapter 341Not the Pilot
- Chapter 342Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
- Chapter 343The Wound-Dresser
- Chapter 344Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 3452
- Chapter 346Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 347Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 348Long, Too Long America
- Chapter 349Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
- Chapter 350Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 3512
- Chapter 352Dirge for Two Veterans
- Chapter 353Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
- Chapter 354I Saw Old General at Bay
- Chapter 355The Artilleryman’s Vision
- Chapter 356Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
- Chapter 357Not Youth Pertains to Me
- Chapter 358Race of Veterans
- Chapter 359World Take Good Notice
- Chapter 360O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
- Chapter 361Look Down Fair Moon
- Chapter 362Reconciliation
- Chapter 363How Solemn as One by One
- Chapter 364As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
- Chapter 365Delicate Cluster
- Chapter 366To a Certain Civilian
- Chapter 367Lo, Victress on the Peaks
- Chapter 368Spirit Whose Work Is Done
- Chapter 369Adieu to a Soldier
- Chapter 370Turn O Libertad
- Chapter 371To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
- Chapter 372Memories of President Lincoln
- Chapter 373When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
- Chapter 374Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 3752
- Chapter 376Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 377Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 378Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 379Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 380The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 381The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 382Chapter 9
- Chapter 383The Poet as Arbiter and Equalizer
- Chapter 384The Mission of Poets
- Chapter 385The Poet's Vocation in America
- Chapter 386Chapter 13
- Chapter 387Fall Behind Me States
- Chapter 388The Individual as the Center of All
- Chapter 389Nativity and Self
- Chapter 390O Captain! My Captain!
- Chapter 391Hush’d Be the Camps To-day
- Chapter 392This Dust Was Once the Man
- Chapter 393By Blue Ontario’s Shore
- Chapter 394Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 3952
- Chapter 396Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 397Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 398Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 399Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 400The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 401The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 402Chapter 9
- Chapter 403The Poet as Arbiter and Equalizer
- Chapter 404The Mission of Poets
- Chapter 405The Poet's Vocation in America
- Chapter 406Chapter 13
- Chapter 407Fall Behind Me States
- Chapter 408The Individual as the Center of All
- Chapter 409Nativity and Self
- Chapter 410America Is You and Me
- Chapter 411Confronting the Cosmos
- Chapter 412Thus by Blue Ontario's Shore
- Chapter 413Bards of the Great Idea
- Chapter 414Reversals
- Chapter 415Autumn Rivulets
- Chapter 416As Consequent, etc.
- Chapter 417The Return of the Heroes
- Chapter 418Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4192
- Chapter 420Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 421Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 422Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 423Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 424The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 425The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 426There Was a Child Went Forth
- Chapter 427Old Ireland
- Chapter 428The City Dead-House
- Chapter 429This Compost
- Chapter 430Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4312
- Chapter 432To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
- Chapter 433Unnamed Lands
- Chapter 434Song of Prudence
- Chapter 435The Singer in the Prison
- Chapter 436Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4372
- Chapter 438Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 439Warble for Lilac-Time
- Chapter 440Outlines for a Tomb
- Chapter 441Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4422
- Chapter 443Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 444Out from Behind This Mask
- Chapter 445Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4462
- Chapter 447Vocalism
- Chapter 448Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4492
- Chapter 450To Him That Was Crucified
- Chapter 451You Felons on Trial in Courts
- Chapter 452Laws for Creations
- Chapter 453To a Common Prostitute
- Chapter 454I Was Looking a Long While
- Chapter 455Thought
- Chapter 456Miracles
- Chapter 457Sparkles from the Wheel
- Chapter 458To a Pupil
- Chapter 459Unfolded Out of the Folds
- Chapter 460What Am I After All
- Chapter 461Kosmos
- Chapter 462Others May Praise What They Like
- Chapter 463Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
- Chapter 464Tests
- Chapter 465The Torch
- Chapter 466O Star of France
- Chapter 467The Ox-Tamer
- Chapter 468An Old Man’s Thought of School
- Chapter 469Wandering at Morn
- Chapter 470Italian Music in Dakota
- Chapter 471With All Thy Gifts
- Chapter 472My Picture-Gallery
- Chapter 473The Prairie States
- Chapter 474Proud Music of the Storm
- Chapter 475Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4762
- Chapter 477Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 478Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 479Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 480Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 481Passage to India
- Chapter 482Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4832
- Chapter 484Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 485Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 486Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 487Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 488The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 489The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 490Chapter 9
- Chapter 491Prayer of Columbus
- Chapter 492The Sleepers
- Chapter 493Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 4942
- Chapter 495Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 496Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 497Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 498Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 499The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 500The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 501Transpositions
- Chapter 502To Think of Time
- Chapter 503Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 5042
- Chapter 505Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 506Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 507Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 508Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 509The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 510The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 511Chapter 9
- Chapter 512Whispers of Heavenly Death
- Chapter 513Darest Thou Now O Soul
- Chapter 514Whispers of Heavenly Death
- Chapter 515Chanting the Square Deific
- Chapter 516Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 5172
- Chapter 518Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 519Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 520Of Him I Love Day and Night
- Chapter 521Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
- Chapter 522As if a Phantom Caress’d Me
- Chapter 523Assurances
- Chapter 524Quicksand Years
- Chapter 525That Music Always Round Me
- Chapter 526What Ship Puzzled at Sea
- Chapter 527A Noiseless Patient Spider
- Chapter 528O Living Always, Always Dying
- Chapter 529To One Shortly to Die
- Chapter 530Night on the Prairies
- Chapter 531Thought
- Chapter 532The Last Invocation
- Chapter 533As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing
- Chapter 534Pensive and Faltering
- Chapter 535Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
- Chapter 536Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 5372
- Chapter 538Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 539Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 540Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 541Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 542A Paumanok Picture
- Chapter 543From Noon to Starry Night
- Chapter 544Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
- Chapter 545Faces
- Chapter 546Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 5472
- Chapter 548Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 549Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 550Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 551The Mystic Trumpeter
- Chapter 552Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 5532
- Chapter 554Blow Trumpeter Free and Clear
- Chapter 555Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 556Blow Again Trumpeter!
- Chapter 557Blow Again Trumpeter
- Chapter 558The Trumpet's Lament
- Chapter 559The Trumpet of Joy and Prophecy
- Chapter 560To a Locomotive in Winter
- Chapter 561O Magnet-South
- Chapter 562Mannahatta
- Chapter 563All Is Truth
- Chapter 564A Riddle Song
- Chapter 565Excelsior
- Chapter 566Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
- Chapter 567Thoughts
- Chapter 568Mediums
- Chapter 569Weave In, My Hardy Life
- Chapter 570Spain, 1873–74
- Chapter 571By Broad Potomac’s Shore
- Chapter 572From Far Dakota’s Canyons
- Chapter 573Old War-Dreams
- Chapter 574Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
- Chapter 575What Best I See in Thee
- Chapter 576Spirit That Form’d This Scene
- Chapter 577As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
- Chapter 578A Clear Midnight
- Chapter 579Songs of Parting
- Chapter 580As the Time Draws Nigh
- Chapter 581Years of the Modern
- Chapter 582Ashes of Soldiers
- Chapter 583Thoughts
- Chapter 584Of These Years I Sing
- Chapter 5852
- Chapter 586Song at Sunset
- Chapter 587As at Thy Portals Also Death
- Chapter 588My Legacy
- Chapter 589Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
- Chapter 590Camps of Green
- Chapter 591The Sobbing of the Bells
- Chapter 592As They Draw to a Close
- Chapter 593Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
- Chapter 594The Untold Want
- Chapter 595Portals
- Chapter 596These Carols
- Chapter 597Now Finalè to the Shore
- Chapter 598So Long!
- Chapter 599Sands at Seventy
- Chapter 600Mannahatta
- Chapter 601Paumanok
- Chapter 602From Montauk Point
- Chapter 603To Those Who’ve Fail’d
- Chapter 604A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
- Chapter 605The Bravest Soldiers
- Chapter 606A Font of Type
- Chapter 607As I Sit Writing Here
- Chapter 608My Canary Bird
- Chapter 609Queries to My Seventieth Year
- Chapter 610The Wallabout Martyrs
- Chapter 611The First Dandelion
- Chapter 612America
- Chapter 613Memories
- Chapter 614To-day and Thee
- Chapter 615After the Dazzle of Day
- Chapter 616Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
- Chapter 617Out of May’s Shows Selected
- Chapter 618Halcyon Days
- Chapter 619Fancies at Navesink
- Chapter 620The Pilot in the Mist
- Chapter 621Had I the Choice
- Chapter 622You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
- Chapter 623Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
- Chapter 624And Yet Not You Alone
- Chapter 625Proudly the Flood Comes In
- Chapter 626By That Long Scan of Waves
- Chapter 627Then Last of All
- Chapter 628Election Day, November, 1884
- Chapter 629With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
- Chapter 630Death of General Grant
- Chapter 631Red Jacket (from Aloft)
- Chapter 632Washington’s Monument, February, 1885
- Chapter 633Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
- Chapter 634Broadway
- Chapter 635To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
- Chapter 636Old Salt Kossabone
- Chapter 637The Dead Tenor
- Chapter 638Continuities
- Chapter 639Yonnondio
- Chapter 640Life
- Chapter 641Going Somewhere
- Chapter 642Small the Theme of My Chant
- Chapter 643True Conquerors
- Chapter 644The United States to Old World Critics
- Chapter 645The Calming Thought of All
- Chapter 646Thanks in Old Age
- Chapter 647Life and Death
- Chapter 648The Voice of the Rain
- Chapter 649Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
- Chapter 650While Not the Past Forgetting
- Chapter 651The Dying Veteran
- Chapter 652Stronger Lessons
- Chapter 653A Prairie Sunset
- Chapter 654Twenty Years
- Chapter 655Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
- Chapter 656Twilight
- Chapter 657You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
- Chapter 658Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
- Chapter 659The Dead Emperor
- Chapter 660As the Greek's Signal Flame
- Chapter 661The Dismantled Ship
- Chapter 662Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
- Chapter 663An Evening Lull
- Chapter 664Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
- Chapter 665After the Supper and Talk
- Chapter 666Goodbye My Fancy!
- Chapter 667Preface Note to 2nd Annex
- Chapter 668Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!
- Chapter 669Lingering Last Drops
- Chapter 670Good-Bye My Fancy
- Chapter 671On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
- Chapter 672My 71st Year
- Chapter 673Apparitions
- Chapter 674The Pallid Wreath
- Chapter 675An Ended Day
- Chapter 676Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
- Chapter 677To the Pending Year
- Chapter 678Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher
- Chapter 679Long, Long Hence
- Chapter 680Bravo, Paris Exposition!
- Chapter 681Interpolation Sounds
- Chapter 682To the Sun-Set Breeze
- Chapter 683Old Chants
- Chapter 684A Christmas Greeting
- Chapter 685Sounds of the Winter
- Chapter 686A Twilight Song
- Chapter 687When the Full-Grown Poet Came
- Chapter 688Osceola
- Chapter 689A Voice from Death
- Chapter 690A Persian Lesson
- Chapter 691The Commonplace
- Chapter 692The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete
- Chapter 693Mirages
- Chapter 694L. of G.'s Purport
- Chapter 695The Unexpress’d
- Chapter 696Grand Is the Seen
- Chapter 697Unseen Buds
- Chapter 698Goodbye My Fancy!
- Chapter 699Old Age Echoes
- Chapter 700To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power
- Chapter 701Then Shall Perceive
- Chapter 702The Few Drops Known
- Chapter 703One Thought Ever at the Fore
- Chapter 704While Behind All Firm and Erect
- Chapter 705A Kiss to the Bride
- Chapter 706Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish’d Shame
- Chapter 707Supplement Hours
- Chapter 708Of Many a Smutch’d Deed Reminiscent
- Chapter 709To Be at All
- Chapter 710Death's Valley
- Chapter 711On the Same Picture
- Chapter 712A Thought of Columbus
- Chapter 713A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
- Chapter 714Endnotes