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Titel: Leaves of Grass

von William Shakespeare, H. G. Wells, Henry Van Dyke, Thomas Carlyle, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Anthony Hope, Henry Fielding, Giraldus Cambrensis, Daniel Defoe, Grammaticus Saxo, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hugh Lofting, Agatha Christie, Sinclair Lewis, Eugène Brieux, Upton Sinclair, Booth Tarkington, Sax Rohmer, Jack London, Anna Katharine Green, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Xenophon, Alexandre Dumas père, John William Draper, Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell, Bram Stoker, Honoré de Balzac, William Congreve, Louis de Rougemont, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Rolf Boldrewood, François Rabelais, Lysander Spooner, B. M. Bower, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hickling Prescott, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert Herrick, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Charles Babbage, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Frank L. Packard, George Meredith, John Merle Coulter, Irvin S. Cobb, Edwin Mims, John Tyndall, Various, Charles Darwin, Sidney Lanier, Henry Lawson, Niccolò Machiavelli, George W. Crile, Théophile Gautier, Noah Brooks, James Thomson, Zane Grey, J. M. Synge, Virginia Woolf, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Helen Cody Wetmore, Ayn Rand, Sir Thomas Malory, Gustave Flaubert, Edmond Rostand, Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, Giles Lytton Strachey, Myrtle Reed, Ernest Bramah, Jules Verne, H. L. Mencken, H. Stanley Redgrove, Victor Lefebure, Edna Lyall, John Masefield, Charles Kingsley, Robert Burns, Edgar Lee Masters, Victor [pseud.] Appleton, Ellis Parker Butler, Mary Lamb, Charles Lamb, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kenneth Grahame, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, John Galt, James J. Davis, Owen Wister, William Blades, Sir Hall Caine, Sir Max Beerbohm, Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Bret Harte, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Thomas Henry Huxley, A. B. Paterson, John N. Reynolds, Walter Dill Scott, Hans Gustav Adolf Gross, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman

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LEAVES OF GRASS

By 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 Persue 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!