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Leaves of Grass: First and Death-Bed Editions

Page 96

by Walt Whitman


  ADIEU TO A SOLDIER

  TURN O LIBERTAD

  TO THE LEAVEN’D SOIL THEY TROD

  MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

  WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM‘D

  O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

  HUSH’D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY

  THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN

  BY BLUE ONTARIO’S SHORE

  REVERSALS

  AUTUMN RIVULETS

  AS CONSEQUENT, ETC.

  THE RETURN OF THE HEROES

  THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH

  OLD IRELAND

  THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE

  THIS COMPOST

  TO A FOIL’D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE

  UNNAMED LANDS

  SONG OF PRUDENCE

  THE SINGER IN THE PRISON

  WARBLE FOR LILAC-TIME

  OUTLINES FOR A TOMB

  OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK

  VOCALISM

  TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED

  YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS

  LAWS FOR CREATIONS

  TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE

  I WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE

  THOUGHT

  MIRACLES

  SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL

  TO A PUPIL

  UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS

  WHAT AM I AFTER ALL

  KOSMOS

  OTHERS MAY PRAISE WHAT THEY LIKE

  WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?

  TESTS

  THE TORCH

  O STAR OF FRANCE (1870-71)

  THE OX-TAMER

  AN OLD MAN’S THOUGHT OF SCHOOL

  WANDERING AT MORN

  ITALIAN MUSIC IN DAKOTA

  WITH ALL THY GIFTS

  MY PICTURE-GALLERY

  THE PRAIRIE STATES

  PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM

  PASSAGE TO INDIA

  PRAYER OF COLUMBUS

  THE SLEEPERS

  TRANSPOSITIONS

  TO THINK OF TIM

  WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH

  DAREST THOU NOW O SOUL

  WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH

  CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC

  OF HIM I LOVE DAY AND NIGHT

  YET, YET, YE DOWNCAST HOURS

  AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS’D ME

  ASSURANCES

  QUICKSAND YEARS

  THAT MUSIC ALWAYS ROUND ME

  WHAT SHIP PUZZLED AT SEA

  A NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER

  O LIVING ALWAYS, ALWAYS DYING

  TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE

  NIGHT ON THE PRAIRIES

  THOUGHT

  THE LAST INVOCATION

  AS I WATCH’D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING

  PENSIVE AND FALTERING

  THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD

  A PAUMANOK PICTURE

  FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT

  THOU ORB ALOFT FULL-DAZZLING

  FACES

  THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER

  TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER

  O MAGNET-SOUTH

  MANNAHATTA

  ALL IS TRUTH

  A RIDDLE SONG

  EXCELSIOR

  AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS

  THOUGHTS

  MEDIUMS

  WEAVE IN, MY HARDY LIFE

  SPAIN, 1873-74

  BY BROAD POTOMAC’S SHORE

  FROM FAR DAKOTA’S CAÑONS

  OLD WAR-DREAMS

  THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING

  WHAT BEST I SEE IN THEE

  SPIRIT THAT FORM’D THIS SCENE

  AS I WALK THESE BROAD MAJESTIC DAYS

  A CLEAR MIDNIGHT

  SONGS OF PARTING

  AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH

  YEARS OF THE MODERN

  ASHES OF SOLDIERS

  THOUGHTS

  SONG AT SUNSET

  AS AT THY PORTALS ALSO DEATH

  MY LEGACY

  PENSIVE ON HER DEAD GAZING

  CAMPS OF GREEN

  THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS

  AS THEY DRAW TO A CLOSE

  JOY, SHIPMATE, JOY!

  THE UNTOLD WANT

  PORTALS

  THESE CAROLS

  NOW FINALE TO THE SHORE

  SO LONG!

  FIRST ANNEX - SANDS AT SEVENTY

  MANNAHATTA

  PAUMANOK

  FROM MONTAUK POINT

  TO THOSE WHO’VE FAIL’D

  A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE

  THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS

  A FONT OF TYPE

  AS I SIT WRITING HERE

  MY CANARY BIRD

  QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR

  THE WALLABOUT MARTYRS

  THE FIRST DANDELION

  AMERICA

  MEMORIES

  TO-DAY AND THEE

  AFTER THE DAZZLE OF DAY

  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BORN FEB. 12, 1809

  OUT OF MAY’S SHOWS SELECTED

  HALCYON DAYS

  FANCIES AT NAVESINK

  ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884

  WITH HUSKY-HAUGHTY LIPS, O SEA!

  DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT

  RED JACKET (FROM ALOFT)

  WASHINGTON’S MONUMENT, FEBRUARY, 1885

  OF THAT BLITHE THROAT OF THINE

  BROADWAY

  TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS

  OLD SALT KOSSABONE

  THE DEAD TENOR

  CONTINUITIES

  YONNONDIO

  LIFE

  “GOING SOMEWHERE”

  SMALL THE THEME OF MY CHANT

  TRUE CONQUERORS

  THE UNITED STATES TO OLD WORLD CRITICS

  THE CALMING THOUGHT OF ALL

  THANKS IN OLD AGE

  LIFE AND DEATH

  THE VOICE OF THE RAIN

  SOON SHALL THE WINTER’S FOIL BE HERE

  WHILE NOT THE PAST FORGETTING

  THE DYING VETERAN

  STRONGER LESSONS

  A PRAIRIE SUNSET

  TWENTY YEARS

  ORANGE BUDS BY MAIL FROM FLORIDA

  TWILIGHT

  YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME

  NOT MEAGRE, LATENT BOUGHS ALONE

  THE DEAD EMPEROR

  AS THE GREEK’S SIGNAL FLAME

  THE DISMANTLED SHIP

  NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL

  AN EVENING LULL

  OLD AGE’S LAMBENT PEAKS

  AFTER THE SUPPER AND TALK

  SECOND ANNEX - GOOD-BYE MY FANCY

  PREFACE NOTE TO 2D ANNEX, CONCLUDING L. OF G.—1891

  SAIL OUT FOR GOOD, EIDOLON YACHT!

  LINGERING LAST DROPS

  GOOD-BYE MY FANCY

  ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN!

  MY 71ST YEAR

  APPARITIONS

  THE PALLID WREATH

  AN ENDED DAY

  OLD AGE’S SHIP & CRAFTY DEATH’S

  TO THE PENDING YEAR

  SHAKSPERE-BACON’S CIPHER

  LONG, LONG HENCE

  BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!

  INTERPOLATION SOUNDS

  TO THE SUN-SET BREEZE

  OLD CHANTS

  A CHRISTMAS GREETING

  SOUNDS OF THE WINTER

  A TWILIGHT SONG

  WHEN THE FULL-GROWN POET CAME

  OSCEOLA

  A VOICE FROM DEATH

  A PERSIAN LESSON

  THE COMMONPLACE

  “THE ROUNDED CATALOGUE DIVINE COMPLETE”

  MIRAGES

  L. OF G.’S PURPORT

  THE UNEXPRESS’D

  GRAND IS THE SEEN

  UNSEEN BUDS

  GOOD-BYE MY FANCY!

  A BACKWARD GLANCE O‘ER TRAVEL’D ROADS

  ADDITIONAL POEMS

  INTRODUCTION TO ADDITIONAL POEMS

  POEMS WRITTEN BEFORE 1855

  POEMS EXCLUDED FROM THE “DEATH-BED” EDITION (1891-1892)

  OLD AGE ECHOES (1897)

  POEMS WRITTEN BEFORE 1855

  OUR FUTURE LOT

  FAME’S VANITY

  MY DEPARTURE

  YOUNG GRIMES

  THE INCA’S DAUGHTER

  THE L
OVE THAT IS HEREAFTER

  WE ALL SHALL REST AT LAST

  THE SPANISH LADY

  THE END OF ALL

  THE COLUMBIAN’S SONG

  THE PUNISHMENT OF PRIDE

  AMBITION

  THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF McDONALD CLARKE

  TIME TO COME

  A SKETCH

  DEATH OF THE NATURE-LOVER

  THE PLAY-GROUND

  ODE

  THE MISSISSIPPI AT MIDNIGHT

  SONG FOR CERTAIN CONGRESSMEN

  BLOOD-MONEY

  THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS

  RESURGEMUS

  POEMS EXCLUDED FROM THE “DEATH-BED” EDITION (1891-1892)

  GREAT ARE THE MYTHS

  CHANTS DEMOCRATIC. 6

  THINK OF THE SOUL

  RESPONDEZ!

  ENFANS D‘ADAM. 11

  CALAMUS. 16

  CALAMUS. 8

  CALAMUS. 9

  LEAVES OF GRASS. 20

  THOUGHTS. 1

  THOUGHT

  SAYS

  APOSTROPH

  O SUN OF REAL PEACE

  PRIMEVAL MY LOVE FOR THE WOMAN I LOVE

  TO YOU

  NOW LIFT ME CLOSE

  TO THE READER AT PARTING

  DEBRIS

  LEAFLETS

  DESPAIRING CRIES

  CALAMUS. 5

  THOUGHTS. 2

  THOUGHTS. 4

  BATHED IN WAR’S PERFUME

  SOLID, IRONICAL, ROLLING ORB

  NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME

  THIS DAY, O SOUL

  LESSONS

  ASHES OF SOLDIERS: EPIGRAPH

  THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP

  AFTER AN INTERVAL

  TWO RIVULETS

  OR FROM THAT SEA OF TIME

  FROM MY LAST YEARS

  IN FORMER SONGS

  AS IN A SWOON

  [LAST DROPLETS]

  SHIP AHOY!

  FOR QUEEN VICTORIA’S BIRTHDAY

  L OF G

  AFTER THE ARGUMENT

  FOR US TWO, READER DEAR

  OLD AGE ECHOES

  TO SOAR IN FREEDOM AND IN FULLNESS OF POWER

  THEN SHALL PERCEIVE

  THE FEW DROPS KNOWN

  ONE THOUGHT EVER AT THE FORE

  WHILE BEHIND ALL FIRM AND ERECT

  A KISS TO THE BRIDE

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

  SUPPLEMENT HOURS

  OF MANY A SMUTCH’D DEED REMINISCENT

  TO BE AT ALL

  DEATH’S VALLEY

  ON THE SAME PICTURE

  A THOUGHT OF COLUMBUS

  ENDNOTES

  PUBLICATION INFORMATION

  INSPIRED BY LEAVES OF GRASS

  COMMENTS & QUESTIONS

  FOR FURTHER READING

  INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

 

 

 


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