Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Classic Books Press
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
English · 1855 · Poetry
Whitman's lifelong collection of free-verse poems celebrating the self, the body, and democratic America, read for its expansive voice and formal daring.
Start reading Share
Contents
Epigraph Inscriptions Starting from Paumanok Starting from Paumanok Section 14 Whoever you are, to you endless announcements! Starting from Paumanok Song of Myself Song of Myself Section 15 The pure contralto sings in the organ loft, \ The carpenter dresses… Song of Myself Song of Myself Section 24 Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, \ Turbulent, fleshy… Song of Myself Song of Myself Section 33 Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess’d at, \ What I… Song of Myself Song of Myself Section 41 I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs, \ And… Section 42 A call in the midst of the crowd, \ My own voice, orotund sweeping… Section 43 I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over, \ My faith is… Song of Myself Children of Adam Calamus Salut au Monde! Section 1 O take my hand Walt Whitman! \ Such gliding wonders! such sights and… Section 2 Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens, \ Asia, Africa… Section 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? Section 4 What do you see Walt Whitman? \ Who are they you salute, and that one… Salut au Monde! Song of the Open Road Song of the Open Road Section 13 Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless, \ To… Section 14 Allons! through struggles and wars! \ The goal that was named cannot… Section 15 Allons! the road is before us! \ It is safe—I have tried it—my own… Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Song of the Answerer Section 1 Now list to my morning’s romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, \… Section 2 The indications and tally of time, \ Perfect sanity shows the master… Our Old Feuillage A Song of Joys Song of the Broad-Axe Section 1 Weapon shapely, naked, wan, \ Head from the mother’s bowels drawn, \… Section 2 Welcome are all earth’s lands, each for its kind, \ Welcome are lands… Section 3 The log at the wood-pile, the axe supported by it, \ The sylvan hut… Song of the Broad-Axe Song of the Exposition Section 1 (Ah little recks the laborer, \ How near his work is holding him to… Section 2 Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia, \ Cross out please those… Section 3 Responsive to our summons, \ Or rather to her long-nurs’d… Section 4 But hold—don’t I forget my manners? \ To introduce the stranger… Section 5 We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from… Section 6 (This, this and these, America, shall be your pyramids and obelisks… Section 7 Away with themes of war! away with war itself! \ Hence from my… Section 8 And thou America, \ Thy offspring towering e’er so high, yet higher… Section 9 And thou, the Emblem waving over all! \ Delicate beauty, a word to… Song of the Redwood-Tree Section 1 A California song, \ A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable… Section 2 The flashing and golden pageant of California, \ The sudden and… Section 3 But more in you than these, lands of the Western shore, \ (These but… A Song for Occupations A Song for Occupations Section 5 Will the whole come back then? \ Can each see signs of the best by a… Section 6 Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last, \ In things… A Song of the Rolling Earth Birds of Passage A Broadway Pageant Section 1 Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come, \ Courteous, the… Section 2 Superb-faced Manhattan! \ Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the… Section 3 And you Libertad of the world! \ You shall sit in the middle… Sea-Drift By the Roadside Drum-Taps Memories of President Lincoln By Blue Ontario’s Shore Autumn Rivulets Proud Music of the Storm Section 1 Proud music of the storm, \ Blast that careers so free, whistling… Section 2 Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire, \ Listen, lose not… Proud Music of the Storm Passage to India Passage to India Section 6 Year at whose wide-flung door I sing! \ Year of the purpose… Section 7 Passage indeed O soul to primal thought, \ Not lands and seas alone… Section 8 O we can wait no longer, \ We too take ship O soul, \ Joyous we too… Section 9 Passage to more than India! \ Are thy wings plumed indeed for such… Prayer of Columbus The Sleepers To Think of Time Whispers of Heavenly Death Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood From Noon to Starry Night Songs of Parting Sands at Seventy Goodbye My Fancy Goodbye My Fancy Preface Note to 2nd Annex Old Age Echoes A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads Get a printed copy via Print-on-Demand
Source text: Standard Ebooks (original ); CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication). Re-typeset by ClassicBooksPress.com.