Paumanok

Starting from Paumanok

The poet's birthplace and symbolic starting point for the journey.

Starting from Paumanok

Referenced as the fish-shape place of the narrator's birth.

Song of the Broad-Axe

Paumanok is mentioned as the place where the poet walks, splashing his bare feet in the summer ripples on its sands.

The Universal Self

The narrator's vision includes the beach under 'paling stars of the morning,' evoking Paumanok's shores.

Our Old Feuillage

Paumanok (Long Island) is referenced as a specific, beloved locale where the narrator observes nature, such as the flight of butterflies and the herons wading in shallow bays.

A Song of Joys

The poet recalls fishing for blue-fish off Paumanok, grounding the joys in a specific, beloved American place.

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

The setting of the childhood memory, the shore of Paumanok (Long Island).

As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life

The fish-shaped island whose shores the narrator walks, addressed as 'my father' and a source of debris and drift.

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life

The fish-shaped island presented to the narrator, symbolizing the natural setting.

Chapter 3

The fish-shaped island addressed as 'my father,' the object of the narrator's embrace and demand.

A Paumanok Picture

The setting of the poem, representing the coastal landscape of Long Island.

Paumanok

The island itself is personified and celebrated as a sea-beauty, stretching and basking with both inland and Atlantic shores.

The Pilot in the Mist

The Indian helmsman, described as small and thin, looms in the mist with a governing hand, evoking the indigenous presence of Paumanok.

Red Jacket (from Aloft)

Referenced indirectly through the natural imagery of 'old tree, or rock or cliff' and 'Nature's sun, stars, earth,' evoking the indigenous landscape.

Now Precedent Songs, Farewell

Listed among the precedent songs as 'Paumanok.'