| 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! |