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Walt Whitman. WALT WHITMAN Ultimate Collection: 500+ Works in Poetry & Prose
WALT WHITMAN Ultimate Collection: 500+ Works in Poetry & Prose
Table of Contents
Poetry
Leaves of Grass (The Original 1855 Edition)
Preface
Song of Myself (1855)
A Song for Occupations (1855)
To Think of Time (1855)
The Sleepers (1855)
I Sing the Body Electric (1855)
Faces (1855)
Song of the Answerer (1855)
Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States (1855)
A Boston Ballad (1855)
There Was a Child Went Forth (1855)
Who Learns My Lesson Complete (1855)
Great Are the Myths (1855)
Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition)
LEAVES OF GRASS
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
Starting from Paumanok
BOOK III
Song of Myself
BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
To the Garden the World
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
In Paths Untrodden
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
Salut au Monde!
BOOK VII
Song of the Open Road
BOOK VIII
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
BOOK IX
Song of the Answerer
BOOK X
Our Old Feuillage
BOOK XI
A Song of Joys
BOOK XII
Song of the Broad-Axe
BOOK XIII
Song of the Exposition
BOOK XIV
Song of the Redwood-Tree
BOOK XV
A Song for Occupations
BOOK XVI
A Song of the Rolling Earth
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Song of the Universal
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
To You
France [the 18th Year of these States
Myself and Mine
Year of Meteors [1859-60]
With Antecedents
BOOK XVIII
A Broadway Pageant
BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
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
A Boston Ballad 1854
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
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 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
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
O Captain! My Captain!
Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865]
This Dust Was Once the Man
BOOK XXIII
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
Reversals
BOOK XXIV. 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 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
Proud Music of the Storm
BOOK XXVI
Passage to India
BOOK XXVII
Prayer of Columbus
BOOK XXVIII
The Sleepers
Transpositions
BOOK XXIX
To Think of Time
BOOK XXX. 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 the Ploughman Ploughing
Pensive and Faltering
BOOK XXXI
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
A Paumanok Picture
BOOK XXXII. 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 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
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 [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
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
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
BOOK XXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
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!
Other Poems
The Few Drops Known
Then Shall Perceive
To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power
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
A Thought of Columbus
On the Same Picture
Death’s Valley
Great are the Myths
Blood-Money
Ambition
Resurgemus
Poem of Remembrance For a Girl or a Boy of These States
Think of the Soul
Respondez!
Apostroph
O Sun of Real Peace
So Far and So Far, and on Toward the End
In the New Garden, in All the Parts
States!
Long I Thought That Knowledge
Hours Continuing Long, Sore and Heavy-Hearted
Who is Now Reading This?
To You
Of the Visages of Things
Says
Debris
Thought
Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb
Bathed in War’s Perfume
Not my Enemies Ever Invade Me
This Day, O Soul
Lessons
One Song, America, Before I Go
After an Interval
The Beauty of the Ship
In Former Songs
From my Last Years
Or From That Sea of Time
Two Rivulets
Novels
Franklin Evans
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
PREFATORY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTEP XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
NARRATIVE OF MARTHA’S FATHER
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
Short Stories
The Half-Breed
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Bervance; or, Father and Son
The Tomb-Blossoms
The Last of the Sacred Army
The Child-Ghost
Reuben's Last Wish
A Legend of Life and Love
The Angel of Tears
The Death of Wind-Foot
The Madman
Eris; A Spirit Record
My Boys and Girls
The Fireman's Dream
Chapter I
Chapter II. Story of the Fireman's Strange Companion
The Little Sleighers
Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem
Richard Parker's Widow
Some Fact-Romances
The Shadow and the Light of a Young Man's Soul
Essays & Articles
Manly Health and Training
Part I
EFFECTS OF A SOUND BODY
REASON—OUR OBJECTS
A FINE ANIMAL MAN
FOR STUDENTS, CLERKS, AND THOSE IN SEDENTARY OR MENTAL EMPLOYMENTS
Part II
TO MORALISTS, REFORMERS, ETC
LIFE WITHOUT A SOUND BODY—WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
ATHLETISM
MENTALITY, STUDY, &C., IN THEIR RELATIONS TO HEALTH
TRAINING
Part III
BRIEF SKETCH OF A DAY OF TRAINING, FOR THE USE OF BEGINNERS
WHO CAN FOLLOW THESE RULES?
MORAL RESULTS OF TRAINING
WE DO NOT INCULCATE A MERE PASTIME
BACKSLIDING FROM HEALTHY HABITS
TRAINING ALL THROUGH LIFE
OVERTASKING
STANDARD OF HEALTH
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE HEALTH OF THE MASSES
THE GREAT AMERICAN EVIL—INDIGESTION
Part IV
WHEN OUGHT A MAN BE IN HIS PRIMEST CONDITION, AND HOW LONG?
THE SURE REWARD
MODERN SOCIETY.—EMPLOYMENTS
EARLY YOUTH STAMPS THE FUTURE PHYSIQUE
MANLY BEAUTY—THE TRUE AMBITION
Part V
THE MAGNETIC ATTRACTION FROM HEALTH AND A MANLY PHYSIQUE—CAN IT BE ATTAINED BY TRAINING?
BIRTH-INFLUENCES— BREEDING SUPERB MEN
LONG LIFE AND ITS REQUISITES
REGULAR OCCUPATION
VEGETABLE DIET
Part VI
STUDY OF THEORIES OF HEALTH
EXERCISES, GAMES, AND OFF-HAND CONTRIVANCES
STRENGTH OF THE LEGS AND FEET
SWIMMING AND BATHING
TRAINING THE VOICE
NOT TOO VIOLENT EXERCISE
GYMNASTIC SCHOOLS
OUT-DOORS
EARLY RISING
NIGHT-EATING
Part VII
DRINK
MEDICINES—DO THEY DO ANY GOOD?
SEXUALITY
BEAUTY
THE SENSES
THE FEET
Part VIII
OUR OWN REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE LATE FIGHT—AND THE LESSON TO BE DRAWN FROM IT—WITH ONE OR TWO OTHER MATTERS
Part IX
CLIMATE—IS THIS OF OURS CONSISTENT WITH LONGEVITY AND PERFECT HEALTH?
MEAT AS THE PRINCIPAL DIET FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE NORTHERN STATES
“LOATHED MELANCHOLY,” INDIVIDUAL AND NATIONAL—AND THE ONLY RADICAL CURE
Part X
VIRILITY—PROSTITUTION
MUSCULAR POWER AND ENDURANCE—LOCOMOTION— THE CARE OF THE FEET—DANCING
Part XI
HEALTH OR DISEASE FOLLOW REGULAR LAWS
BAD BLOOD
THE THROAT
VIRTUE OF OUT-DOORS, AND A STIRRING LIFE
COLD WEATHER—DRESS, &C
Part XII
MIDDLE AND OLD AGES
TOO MUCH BRAIN ACTION AND FRETTING
CITY LIFE
Part XIII
CAN WE THEN HAVE AS FINE A RACE OF MEN IN MODERN ARTIFICIAL LIFE, AS IN RUDER AGES?
COULD THERE BE AN ENTIRE NATION OF VIGOROUS AND BEAUTIFUL MEN?
STRENGTH OF FUTURE AMERICANS
MORE ABOUT EATING AND DRINKING
A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
CONCLUSION
Specimen Days
A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND
ANSWER TO AN INSISTING FRIEND
GENEALOGY—VAN VELSOR AND WHITMAN
THE OLD WHITMAN AND VAN VELSOR CEMETERIES
THE MATERNAL HOMESTEAD
TWO OLD FAMILY INTERIORS
PAUMANOK, AND MY LIFE ON IT AS CHILD AND YOUNG MAN
MY FIRST READING—LAFAYETTE
PRINTING OFFICE—OLD BROOKLYN
GROWTH—HEALTH—WORK
MY PASSION FOR FERRIES
BROADWAY SIGHTS
OMNIBUS JAUNTS AND DRIVERS
PLAYS AND OPERAS TOO
THROUGH EIGHT YEARS
SOURCES OF CHARACTER—RESULTS—1860
OPENING OF THE SECESSION WAR
NATIONAL UPRISING AND VOLUNTEERING
CONTEMPTUOUS FEELING
BATTLE OF BULL RUN, JULY, 1861
THE STUPOR PASSES—SOMETHING ELSE BEGINS
DOWN AT THE FRONT
AFTER FIRST FREDERICKSBURG
BACK TO WASHINGTON
FIFTY HOURS LEFT WOUNDED ON THE FIELD
HOSPITAL SCENES AND PERSONS
PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL
THE WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT
AN ARMY HOSPITAL WARD
A CONNECTICUT CASE
TWO BROOKLYN BOYS
A SECESH BRAVE
THE WOUNDED FROM CHANCELLORSVILLE
A NIGHT BATTLE OVER A WEEK SINCE
UNNAMED REMAINS THE BRAVEST SOLDIER
SOME SPECIMEN CASES
MY PREPARATIONS FOR VISITS
AMBULANCE PROCESSIONS
BAD WOUNDS—THE YOUNG
THE MOST INSPIRITING OF ALL WAR'S SHOWS
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
A CAVALRY CAMP
A NEW YORK SOLDIER
HOME-MADE MUSIC
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
HEATED TERM
SOLDIERS AND TALKS
DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER
HOSPITALS ENSEMBLE
A SILENT NIGHT RAMBLE
SPIRITUAL CHARACTERS AMONG THE SOLDIERS
CATTLE DROVES ABOUT WASHINGTON
HOSPITAL PERPLEXITY
DOWN AT THE FRONT
PAYING THE BOUNTIES
RUMORS, CHANGES, ETC
VIRGINIA
SUMMER OF 1864
A NEW ARMY ORGANIZATION FIT FOR AMERICA
DEATH OF A HERO
HOSPITAL SCENES—INCIDENTS
A YANKEE SOLDIER
UNION PRISONERS SOUTH
DESERTERS
A GLIMPSE OF WAR'S HELL-SCENES
GIFTS—MONEY—DISCRIMINATION
ITEMS FROM MY NOTE BOOKS
A CASE FROM SECOND BULL RUN
ARMY SURGEONS—AID DEFICIENCIES
THE BLUE EVERYWHERE
A MODEL HOSPITAL
BOYS IN THE ARMY
BURIAL OF A LADY NURSE
FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS
SOUTHERN ESCAPEES
THE CAPITOL BY GAS-LIGHT
THE INAUGURATION
ATTITUDE OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS DURING THE WAR
THE WEATHER—DOES IT SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE TIMES?
INAUGURATION BALL
SCENE AT THE CAPITOL
A YANKEE ANTIQUE
WOUNDS AND DISEASES
DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
SHERMAN'S ARMY'S JUBILATION—ITS SUDDEN STOPPAGE
NO GOOD PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN
RELEAS'D UNION PRISONERS FROM SOUTH
DEATH OF A PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER
THE ARMIES RETURNING
THE GRAND REVIEW
WESTERN SOLDIERS
A SOLDIER ON LINCOLN
TWO BROTHERS, ONE SOUTH, ONE NORTH
SOME SAD CASES YET
CALHOUN'S REAL MONUMENT
HOSPITALS CLOSING
TYPICAL SOLDIERS
"CONVULSIVENESS"
THREE YEARS SUMM'D UP
THE MILLION DEAD, TOO, SUMM'D UP
THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS
AN INTERREGNUM PARAGRAPH
NEW THEMES ENTERED UPON
ENTERING A LONG FARM-LANE
TO THE SPRING AND BROOK
AN EARLY SUMMER REVEILLE
BIRDS MIGRATING AT MIDNIGHT
BUMBLE-BEES
CEDAR-APPLES
SUMMER SIGHTS AND INDOLENCIES
SUNDOWN PERFUME—QUAILNOTES—THE HERMIT-THRUSH
A JULY AFTER-NOON BY THE POND
LOCUSTS AND KATY-DIDS
THE LESSON OF A TREE
AUTUMN SIDE-BITS
THE SKY—DAYS AND NIGHTS—HAPPINESS
COLORS—A CONTRAST
NOVEMBER 8, '76
CROWS AND CROWS
A WINTER DAY ON THE SEA-BEACH
SEA-SHORE FANCIES
IN MEMORY OF THOMAS PAINE
A TWO HOURS ICE-SAIL
SPRING OVERTURES—RECREATIONS
ONE OF THE HUMAN KINKS
AN AFTERNOON SCENE
THE GATES OPENING
THE COMMON EARTH, THE SOIL
BIRDS AND BIRDS AND BIRDS
FULL-STARR'D NIGHTS
MULLEINS AND MULLEINS
DISTANT SOUNDS
A SUN-BATH-NAKEDNESS
THE OAKS AND I
A QUINTETTE
THE FIRST FROST—MEMS
THREE YOUNG MEN'S DEATHS
FEBRUARY DAYS
A MEADOW LARK
SUNDOWN LIGHTS
THOUGHTS UNDER AN OAK—A DREAM
CLOVER AND HAY PERFUME
AN UNKNOWN
BIRD-WHISTLING
HORSE-MINT
THREE OF US
DEATH OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
JAUNT UP THE HUDSON
HAPPINESS AND RASPBERRIES
A SPECIMEN TRAMP FAMILY
MANHATTAN FROM THE BAY
HUMAN AND HEROIC NEW YORK
HOURS FOR THE SOUL
STRAW-COLOR'D AND OTHER PSYCHES
A NIGHT REMEMBRANCE
WILD FLOWERS
A CIVILITY TOO LONG NEGLECTED
DELAWARE RIVER—DAYS AND NIGHTS
SCENES ON FERRY AND RIVER—LAST WINTER'S NIGHTS
THE FIRST SPRING DAY ON CHESTNUT STREET
UP THE HUDSON TO ULSTER COUNTY
DAYS AT J. B.'S TURF-FIRES—SPRING SONGS
MEETING A HERMIT
AN ULSTER COUNTY WATERFALL
WALTER DUMONT AND HIS MEDAL
HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS
TWO CITY AREAS, CERTAIN HOURS
CENTRAL PARK WALKS AND TALKS
A FINE AFTERNOON, 4 TO 6
DEPARTING OF THE BIG STEAMERS
TWO HOURS ON THE MINNESOTA
MATURE SUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS
EXPOSITION BUILDING—NEW CITY HALL—RIVER TRIP
SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER
BEGIN A LONG JAUNT WEST
IN THE SLEEPER
MISSOURI STATE
LAWRENCE AND TOPEKA, KANSAS
ON TO DENVER—A FRONTIER INCIDENT
AN HOUR ON KENOSHA SUMMIT
AN EGOTISTICAL "FIND"
NEW SENSES: NEW JOYS
STEAM-POWER, TELEGRAPHS, ETC
AMERICA'S BACK-BONE
THE PARKS
ART FEATURES
DENVER IMPRESSIONS
I TURN SOUTH AND THEN EAST AGAIN
UNFULFILLED WANTS—THE ARKANSAS RIVER
A SILENT LITTLE FOLLOWER-THE COREOPSIS
THE PRAIRIES AND GREAT PLAINS IN POETRY
THE SPANISH PEAKS—EVENING ON THE PLAINS
AMERICA'S CHARACTERISTIC LANDSCAPE
EARTH'S MOST IMPORTANT STREAM
PRAIRIE ANALOGIES—THE TREE QUESTION
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LITERATURE
AN INTERVIEWER'S ITEM
THE WOMEN OF THE WEST
THE SILENT GENERAL
PRESIDENT HAYES'S SPEECHES
ST. LOUIS MEMORANDA
NIGHTS ON THE MISSISSIPPI
UPON OUR OWN LAND
EDGAR POE'S SIGNIFICANCE
BEETHOVEN'S SEPTETTE
A HINT OF WILD NATURE
LOAFING IN THE WOODS
A CONTRALTO VOICE
SEEING NIAGARA TO ADVANTAGE
JAUNTING TO CANADA
SUNDAY WITH THE INSANE
REMINISCENCE OF ELIAS HICKS
GRAND NATIVE GROWTH
A ZOLLVEREIN BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CANADA
THE ST. LAWRENCE LINE
THE SAVAGE SAGUENAY
CAPES ETERNITY AND TRINITY
CHICOUTIMI AND HA-HA BAY
THE INHABITANTS—GOOD LIVING
DEATH OF THOMAS CARLYLE
CARLYLE FROM AMERICAN POINTS OF VIEW
A COUPLE OF OLD FRIENDS—A COLERIDGE BIT
A WEEK'S VISIT TO BOSTON
THE BOSTON OF TO-DAY
MY TRIBUTE TO FOUR POETS
MILLET'S PICTURES LAST ITEMS
BIRDS—AND A CAUTION
SAMPLES OF MY COMMON-PLACE BOOK
MY NATIVE SAND AND SALT ONCE MORE
HOT WEATHER NEW YORK
CUSTER'S LAST RALLY
SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES—MEMORIES
A DISCOVERY OF OLD AGE
A VISIT, AT THE LAST, TO R. W. EMERSON
OTHER CONCORD NOTATIONS
BOSTON COMMON—MORE OF EMERSON
AN OSSIANIC NIGHT—DEAREST FRIENDS
ONLY A NEW FERRY-BOAT
DEATH OF LONGFELLOW
STARTING NEWSPAPERS
THE GREAT UNREST OF WHICH WE ARE PART
BY EMERSON'S GRAVE
AT PRESENT WRITING—PERSONAL
AFTER TRYING A CERTAIN BOOK
FINAL CONFESSIONS—LITERARY TESTS
NATURE AND DEMOCRACY—MORALITY
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 thy Equal Brood, in permanent edition
Preface, 1876 To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets
POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA—SHAKSPERE—THE FUTURE
A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE
DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN LECTURE
TWO LETTERS
I. TO — — — LONDON, ENGLAND
W. W
II. TO — — — DRESDEN, SAXONY
Notes Left Over
NATIONALITY—(AND YET)
EMERSON'S BOOKS, (THE SHADOWS OF THEM)
VENTURES, ON AN OLD THEME
A DIALOGUE—
BRITISH LITERATURE
DARWINISM—(THEN FURTHERMORE)
"SOCIETY"
DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW WORLD
FOUNDATION STAGES—THEN OTHERS
GENERAL SUFFRAGE, ELECTIONS, ETC
WHO GETS THE PLUNDER?
FRIENDSHIP, (THE REAL ARTICLE)
LACKS AND WANTS YET
RULERS STRICTLY OUT OF THE MASSES
MONUMENTS—THE PAST AND PRESENT
LITTLE OR NOTHING NEW, AFTER ALL
A LINCOLN REMINISCENCE
FREEDOM
BOOK-CLASSES—AMERICA'S LITERATURE
OUR REAL CULMINATION
AN AMERICAN PROBLEM
THE LAST COLLECTIVE COMPACTION
Pieces in Early Youth
DOUGH-FACE SONG
DEATH IN THE SCHOOL-ROOM (A Fact)
ONE WICKED IMPULSE
THE LAST LOYALIST
WILD FRANK'S RETURN
THE BOY LOVER
THE CHILD AND THE PROFLIGATE
LINGAVE'S TEMPTATION
LITTLE JANE
DUMB KATE
TALK TO AN ART-UNION
BLOOD-MONEY
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II
WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS
SAILING THE MISSISSIPPI AT MIDNIGHT
November Boughs
OUR EMINENT VISITORS, Past, Present and Future
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
Negro Slaves in New York
Canada Nights—Late in August—
Country Days and Nights
Central Park Notes
Plate Glass Notes
SOME WAR MEMORANDA
Washington Street Scenes
The 195th Pennsylvania
Left-Hand Writing By Soldiers
Central Virginia in '64
Paying the 1ST U. S. C. T
FIVE THOUSAND POEMS
THE OLD BOWERY
NOTES TO LATE ENGLISH BOOKS
Preface to the Reader in the British Islands—"Specimen Days in America"
Additional Note, 1887
Preface to "Democratic Vistas" With Other Papers—English Edition
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
NEW ORLEANS IN 1848
SMALL MEMORANDA
Attorney General's Office, Washington, Aug. 22, 1865
A Glint Inside of Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet Appointments. One Item of Many
Note to a Friend
Written Impromptu in an Album
The Place Gratitude Fills in a Fine Character
LAST OF THE WAR CASES
Memorandized at the time, Washington, 1865-'66
ELIAS HICKS
George Fox (and Shakspere)
Good-Bye My Fancy
AN OLD MAN'S REJOINDER
OLD POETS
Ship Ahoy
For Queen Victoria's Birthday
AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE
GATHERING THE CORN
A DEATH-BOUQUET
Some Laggards Yet
THE PERFECT HUMAN VOICE
SHAKSPERE FOR AMERICA
"UNASSAIL'D RENOWN"
INSCRIPTION FOR A LITTLE BOOK ON GIORDANO BRUNO
SPLINTERS
HEALTH, (OLD STYLE)
GAY-HEARTEDNESS
AS IN A SWOON
L. OF G
AFTER THE ARGUMENT
FOR US TWO, READER DEAR
MEMORANDA
A WORLD'S SHOW
NEW YORK—THE BAY—THE OLD NAME
A SICK SPELL
TO BE PRESENT ONLY
"INTESTINAL AGITATION"
"WALT WHITMAN'S LAST 'PUBLIC'"
INGERSOLL'S SPEECH
FEELING FAIRLY
OLD BROOKLYN DAYS
TWO QUESTIONS
PREFACE
AN ENGINEER'S OBITUARY
OLD ACTORS, SINGERS, SHOWS, &C., IN NEW YORK
SOME PERSONAL AND OLD-AGE JOTTINGS
OUT IN THE OPEN AGAIN
AMERICA'S BULK AVERAGE
LAST SAVED ITEMS
WALT WHITMAN'S LAST
Letters
The Wound Dresser
THE GREAT ARMY OF THE WOUNDED
LIFE AMONG FIFTY THOUSAND SOLDIERS
HOSPITAL VISITS
LETTERS OF 1862-3
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The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
A WOMAN’S ESTIMATE OF WALT WHITMAN1
[From Letters by Anne Gilchrist to W. M. Rossetti.]
A CONFESSION OF FAITH2
LETTER I3. WALT WHITMAN TO W. M. ROSSETTI AND ANNE GILCHRIST
LETTER II. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER III. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER IV8. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST
LETTER V. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER VI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER VII13. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST
LETTER VIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER IX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER X. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XIV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XV21. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST
LETTER XVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XVII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XVIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XIX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXIV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXVII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXVIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXIX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXIV. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST
LETTER XXXV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXVII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXVIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XXXIX. BEATRICE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XL. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLIV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLVI. HERBERT H. GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLVII. BEATRICE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLVIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER XLIX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER L. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LII30. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST
LETTER LIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LIV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LVI. HERBERT H. GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LVII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LVIII. HERBERT H. GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LIX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXIV. HERBERT H. GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXVII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXVIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXIX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXXI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXXII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXXIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXXIV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXXV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
LETTER LXXVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
