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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

WALT WHITMAN



Compiled by David Widger





CONTENTS


##  LEAVES OF GRASS

##  DRUM TAPS

##  PATRIOTIC POEMS

##  COMPLETE PROSE WORKS

##  THE WOUND DRESSER







TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES






LEAVES OF GRASS
By Walt Whitman

     Come, said my soul,
     Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
     That should I after return,
     Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
     There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
     (Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)
     Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on,
     Ever and ever yet the verses owning—as, first, I here and now
     Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,

     Walt Whitman


CONTENTS
BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
One's-Self I Sing
As I Ponder'd in Silence
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
To Foreign Lands
To a Historian
To Thee Old Cause
Eidolons
For Him I Sing
When I Read the Book
Beginning My Studies
Beginners
To the States
On Journeys Through the States
To a Certain Cantatrice
Me Imperturbe
Savantism
The Ship Starting
I Hear America Singing
What Place Is Besieged?
Still Though the One I Sing
Shut Not Your Doors
Poets to Come
To You
Thou Reader
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
I Sing the Body Electric
A Woman Waits for Me
Spontaneous Me
One Hour to Madness and Joy
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
I Am He That Aches with Love
Native Moments
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
Facing West from California's Shores
As Adam Early in the Morning
BOOK V. CALAMUS
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
For You, O Democracy
These I Singing in Spring
Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
The Base of All Metaphysics
Recorders Ages Hence
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
Trickle Drops
City of Orgies
Behold This Swarthy Face
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
To a Stranger
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
The Prairie-Grass Dividing
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame
We Two Boys Together Clinging
A Promise to California
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
No Labor-Saving Machine
A Glimpse
A Leaf for Hand in Hand
Earth, My Likeness
I Dream'd in a Dream
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
To the East and to the West
Sometimes with One I Love
To a Western Boy
Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!
Among the Multitude
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
That Shadow My Likeness
Full of Life Now
BOOK VI.
BOOK VII.
BOOK VIII.
BOOK IX.
BOOK X.
BOOK XI.
BOOK XII.
BOOK XIII.
BOOK XIV.
BOOK XV.
BOOK XVI.
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
To You
France [the 18th Year of these States
Myself and Mine
Year of Meteors [1859-60
With Antecedents
BOOK XVIII
BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
Tears
To the Man-of-War-Bird
Aboard at a Ship's Helm
On the Beach at Night
The World below the Brine
On the Beach at Night Alone
Song for All Seas, All Ships
Patroling Barnegat
After the Sea-Ship
BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE
Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
A Hand-Mirror
Gods
Germs
Thoughts
Perfections
O Me! O Life!
To a President
I Sit and Look Out
To Rich Givers
The Dalliance of the Eagles
Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
A Farm Picture
A Child's Amaze
The Runner
Beautiful Women
Mother and Babe
Thought
Visor'd
Thought
Gliding O'er all
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
Thought
To Old Age
Locations and Times
Offerings
To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
BOOK XXI. DRUM-TAPS
Eighteen Sixty-One
Beat! Beat! Drums!
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
Virginia—The West
City of Ships
The Centenarian's Story
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
An Army Corps on the March
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
Come Up from the Fields Father
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
Not the Pilot
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
The Wound-Dresser
Long, Too Long America
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Dirge for Two Veterans
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
I Saw Old General at Bay
The Artilleryman's Vision
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Race of Veterans
World Take Good Notice
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
Look Down Fair Moon
Reconciliation
How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
Delicate Cluster
To a Certain Civilian
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
Adieu to a Soldier
Turn O Libertad
To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod
BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
O Captain! My Captain!
Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865
This Dust Was Once the Man
BOOK XXIII.
Reversals
BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
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 Land
Song of Prudence
The Singer in the Prison
Warble for Lilac-Time
Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
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
Wandering at Morn
With All Thy Gifts
My Picture-Gallery
The Prairie States
BOOK XXV.
BOOK XXVI.
BOOK XXVII.
BOOK XXVIII.
Transpositions
BOOK XXIX.
BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
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 the Ploughman Ploughing
Pensive and Faltering
BOOK XXXI.
A Paumanok Picture
BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
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 Canyons [June 25, 1876]
Old War-Dreams
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
A Clear Midnight
BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING
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 [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
As They Draw to a Close
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
The Untold Want
Portals
These Carols
Now Finale to the Shore
So Long!
BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY
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
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
BOOKXXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
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!





DRUM-TAPS
By Walt Whitman



CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
DRUM-TAPS
FIRST O SONGS FOR A PRELUDE.
EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE.
BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD
SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK.
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS.
VIRGINIA—THE WEST.
CITY OF SHIPS.
THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.
CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD.
BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.
AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH.
BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME.
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER.
VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT.
A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST, AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN.
A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM.
AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS.
NOT THE PILOT.
YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME.
THE WOUND-DRESSER.
LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA.
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN.
DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS.
OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE.
I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY.
THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION.
ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLOURS.
NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME.
RACE OF VETERANS.
WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE.
O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.
LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON.
RECONCILIATION.
HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE.
AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO.
DELICATE CLUSTER.
TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN.
LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS.
SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE.
ADIEU TO A SOLDIER.
TURN O LIBERTAD.
TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD.





THE PATRIOTIC POEMS
Of Walt Whitman



CONTENTS
PAGE
America 	ii
I. POEMS OF WAR
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 	3
Beat! Beat! Drums! 	4
City of Ships 	6
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 	7
Come Up From the Fields Father 	9
A Twilight Song 	12
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 	14
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 	16
First O Songs for a Prelude 	17
Song of the Banner at Daybreak 	21
The Dying Veteran 	31
The Wound-Dresser 	32
Dirge for Two Veterans 	37
From Far Dakota's Cañons 	39
Old War-Dreams 	41
Delicate Cluster 	42
To a Certain Civilian 	43
Adieu to a Soldier 	44
Long, Too Long America 	45
II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR
Weave In, My Hardy Life 	49
How Solemn as One by One 	50
Spirit Whose Work Is Done 	51
The Return of the Heroes 	53
Memories of President Lincoln
    When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 	62
    O Captain! My Captain! 	76
    Hush'd be the Camps To-day 	78
Ashes of Soldiers 	79
Pensive on her Dead Gazing 	82
III. POEMS OF AMERICA
I Hear America Singing 	87
Pioneers! O Pioneers! 	88
Song of the Broad-axe 	95
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 	113
Faces 	116
O Magnet-South 	118
By Broad Potomac's Shore 	121
Our Old Feuillage! 	122
A Broadway Pageant 	131
The Prairie States 	137
IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY
To Foreign Lands 	141
To Thee Old Cause 	142
For You O Democracy 	143
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 	144
What Best I See in Thee 	153
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 	154
The United States to Old World Critics 	156
Years of the Modern 	157
O Star of France 	158
Thoughts 	161
By Blue Ontario's Shore 	164
Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 	191





COMPLETE PROSE WORKS
Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy
By Walt Whitman



CONTENTS
DETAILED CONTENTS
SPECIMEN DAYS
A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND
COLLECT
ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS
ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION
PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS"
PREFACE, 1855 To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y.
PREFACE, 1872 To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with
PREFACE, 1876 To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass
A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE
DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN LECTURE
TWO LETTERS
NOTES LEFT OVER
APPENDIX
PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH
NOVEMBER BOUGHS
OUR EMINENT VISITORS
THE BIBLE AS POETRY
FATHER TAYLOR (AND ORATORY)
THE SPANISH ELEMENT IN OUR NATIONALITY
WHAT LURKS BEHIND SHAKSPERE'S HISTORICAL PLAYS
A THOUGHT ON SHAKSPERE
ROBERT BURNS AS POET AND PERSON
A WORD ABOUT TENNYSON
SLANG IN AMERICA
AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE
SOME DIARY NOTES AT RANDOM
SOME WAR MEMORANDA
FIVE THOUSAND POEMS
THE OLD BOWERY
NOTES TO LATE ENGLISH BOOKS
PREFACE TO THE READER IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS—"Specimen Days in
PREFACE TO "DEMOCRATIC VISTAS" WITH OTHER PAPERS—English Edition
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
NEW ORLEANS IN 1848
SMALL MEMORANDA
LAST OF THE WAR CASES
Endnotes (such as they are) founded on
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE
A DEATH-BOUQUET
SOME LAGGARDS YET
MEMORANDA
PREFACE
WALT WHITMAN'S LAST {49}





THE WOUND DRESSER
A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals
in Washington During the War of the Rebellion
By Walt Whitman
CONTENTS
  	Page
The Great Army of the Wounded 	1
Life among Fifty Thousand Soldiers   	11
Hospital Visits 	21
Letters of 1862-3 	47
Letters of 1864 	143