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As energetic and diverse as the American life it describes, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has been loved by generations for its celebration of a brash young nation and one man's exuberant spirit. First published at the author's expense in 1955, this collection of poems was revised and enlarged thro... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Inscriptions:
- Includes:
- I hear America singing
- Starting from Paumanok
- Song of myself ;
- Children of Adam:
- Includes:
- I sing the body electric
- Calamus:
- Includes:
- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
- Salut au monde!
- Song of the open road
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Song of the answerer
- Our old feuillage
- A song of joys
- Song of the broad-axe
- Song of the Exposition
- Song of the redwood-tree
- A song for occupations
- A song of the rolling earth
- Youth, day, old age, and night ;
- Birds of passage:
- Includes:
- Pioneers! O pioneers!
- A Broadway pageant ;
- Sea drift:
- Includes:
- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
- As I ebb'd with the ocean of life.
- By the roadside:
- Includes:
- When I heard the learn'd astronomer ;
- Drum-taps:
- Includes:
- Song of the banner at daybreak
- The wound-dresser
- Give me the splendid silent sun ;
- Memories of President Lincoln:
- Includes:
- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
- O captain! My captain!
- By blue Ontario's shore
- Reversals ;
- Autumn rivulets:
- Includes:
- There was a child went forth
- Proud music of the storm
- Passage to India
- Prayer of Columbus
- The sleepers
- Transpositions
- To think of time ;
- Whispers of heavenly death:
- Includes:
- A noiseless patient spider
- Thou mother with thy equal brood
- A Paumanok picture ;
- From noon to starry night:
- Includes:
- Faces
- The mystic trumpeter ;
- Songs of parting:
- Includes:
- Song at sunset ;
- Sands at seventy:
- Includes:
- Fancies at Navesink ;
- Good-bye my fancy ;
- Old age echoes ;
- Rejected poems.