Leaves of Grass: First and Death-Bed Editions
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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
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