INSCRIPTIONS 1
One＇s-Self I Sing 1
In Cabin＇d Ships At Sea 1
To Thee Old Cause 3
Beginning My Studies 3
Beginners 4
To the States 4
To a Certain Cantatrice 4
Me Imperturbe 5
I Hear America Singing 5
What Place Is Besieged？ 6
Shut Not Your Doors 6
Poets to Come 6
Still Though the One I Sing 7
To You 7
Thou Reader 7
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK 7
SONG OF MYSELF 21
CHILDREN OF ADAM 63
I Sing the Body Electric 63
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 72
I Am He that Aches with Love 72
Native Moments 73
Facing West from California＇s Shores 73
As Adam Early in the Morning 74
CALAMUS 74
In Paths Untrodden 74
Scented Herbage of My Breast 75
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 77
City of Orgies 79
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 79
To a Stranger 80
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 80
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 81
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 81
The Prairie-Grass Dividing 82
When I Peruse the Conquer＇d Fame 82
No Labor-Saving Machine 83
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD 83
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY 95
A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH 102
BIRDS OF PASSAGE 109
Pioneers！O Pioneers！ 109
France 113
Myself and Mine 114
Year of Meteors 116
SEA-DRIFT 118
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 118
As I Ebb＇d with the Ocean of Life 125
To the Man-of-War-Bird 128
Tears 129
Aboard at a Ship＇s Helm 129
On the Beach at Night 130
The World Below the Brine 131
On the Beach at Night Alone 132
Song for All Seas，All Ships 132
Patroling Barnegat 134
After the Sea-Ship 134
BY THE ROADSIDE 135
A Boston Ballad 135
Europe 138
To a President 140
I Sit and Look Out 140
To Rich Givers 141
The Dalliance of the Eagles 141
Roaming in Thought 142
A Farm Picture 142
A Child＇s Amaze 142
The Runner 142
Beautiful Women 142
Mother and Babe 143
Thought 143
Visor＇d 143
Thought 143
Gliding O＇er All 143
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour 144
Thought 144
To Old Age 144
Locations and Times 144
Offerings 144
To the States 145
DRUM-TAPS 145
Eighteen Sixty-One 145
Beat！Beat！Drums！ 146
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 147
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird 148
Bivouac on a Mountain Side 148
An Army Corps on the March 149
By the Bivouac＇s Fitful Flame 149
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 150
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest，and The Road Unknown 151
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 153
Long，Too Long America 153
Year That Trembled and Reel＇s Beneath Me 154
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 154
Not Youth Pertains to Me 155
Lo，Victress on the Peaks 155
Race of Veterans 156
Word Take Good Notice 156
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 156
MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN 157
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom＇d 157
O Captain！My Captain 166
Hush＇d Be the Camps To-Day 167
This Dust Was Once the Man 168
BY BLUE ONTARIO＇S SHORE 168
REVERSALS 185
PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM 185
PASSAGE TO INDIA 192
THE SLEEPERS 202
TRANSPOSITIONS 211
TO THINK OF TIME 212
THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD 219
FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT 225
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling 225
Weave in，My Hardy Life 226
Spain，1873-74 227
By Broad Potomac＇s Shore 227
Old War-Dreams 228
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 228
What Best I See in Thee 229
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 230
Spirit that Form＇d This Scene 231
A Clear Midnight 231
SONGS OF PARTING 232
As the Time Draws Nigh 232
Years of hte Modern 232
Song at Sunset 234
The Sobbing of the Bells 236
My Legacy 237
Joy，Shipmate，Joy！ 237
The Untold Want 237
Portals 238
These Carols 238
Now Finalè to the Shore 238
So Long 238
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY 242
Preface Note to 2d Annex 242
Good-Bye My Fancy 244
On，On the Same，Ye Jocund Twain！ 244
Apparitions 245
Bravo，Paris Exposition 245
L．of G．＇s Purport 246
Unseen Buds 246
Good-Bye My Fancy 247
PROSE SPECIMEN DAYS (SELECTIONS) 248
A Happy Hour＇s Command 248
Answer to an Insisting Friend 249
Genealogy － Van Velsor and Whitman 249
The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries 250
The Maternal Homestead 252
Two Old Family Interiors 253
Paumanok，and My Life on It as Child and Young Man 255
My First Reading － Lafayette 257
Printing Office － Old Brooklyn 258
Growth － Health － Work 258
My Passion for Ferries 259
Broadway Sights 260
Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers 261
Plays and Operas Too 262
Through Eight Years 264
Sources Of Character － Results － 1860 264
Opening of the Secessioin War 265
National Uprising and Volunteering 266
Contemptuous Feeling 266
Battle of Bull Run，July，1861 267
The Stupor Passes － Something Else Begins 270
Down at the Front 271
After First Fredericksburg 272
Back to Washington 273
Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field 275
Hospital Scenes and Persons 276
Patent-Office Hospital 277
The White House by Moonlight 278
An Army Hospital Ward 279
A Connecticut Case 280
Two Brooklyn Boys 280
A Secesh Brave 281
The Wounded from Chancellorsville 281
A Night Battle，Over a Week Since 282
Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier 285
Ambulance Processions 285
Bad Wounds － The Young 286
The Most Inspiriting of All War＇s Shows 286
Battle of Gettysburg 287
A Cavalry Camp 288
A New York Soldier 289
Home-Made Music 290
Abraham Lincoln 291
Heated Term 293
Soldiers and Talks 293
Death of a Wisconsioin Officer 294
A Silent Night Ramble 296
Spiritual Characters Among the Soldiers 296
Cattle Droves about Washington 297
Hospital Perplexity 297
Down at the Front 298
Paying the Bounties 299
Rumors，Changes，＆c 299
Virginia 300
Summer of 1864 301
A New Army Organization Fit for America 302
Death of a Hero 302
Hospital Scenes － Incidents 303
A Yankee Soldier 304
Union Prisoners South 305
Deserters 306
A Glimpse of War＇s Hell-Scenes 306
Gifts － Money － Discrimination 308
Army Surgeons － Aid Deficiencies 309
The Blue Everywhere 310
A Model Hospital 311
Boys in the Army 311
Burial of a Lady Nurse 312
Female Nurses for Soldiers 312
The Capitol by Gas-Light 313
The Inauguration 313
Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War 314
The Weather － Does It Sympathize with These Times？ 315
Inauguration Ball 317
Scene at the Capitol 317
A Yankee Antique 318
Wounds and Diseases 319
Death of President Lincoln 320
Sherman＇s Army＇s Jubilation － Its Sudden Stoppage 320
No Good Portrait of Lincoln 321
Releas＇d Union Prisoners from South 322
The Grand Review 322
Western Soldiers 323
A Soldier on Lincoln 323
Two Brothers，One South，One North 324
Some Sad Cases Yet 325
Calhoun＇s Real Monument 326
＂Convulsiveness＂ 326
Three Years Summ＇d Up 327
The Million Dead，Too，Summ＇d Up 328
The Real War Will Never Get in the Books 329
An Interregnum Paragraph 331
New Themes Entered Upon 332
Entering a Long Farm-Lane 332
To the Spring and Brook 333
An Early Summer Reveille 334
Birds Migrating at Midnight 334
Cedar-Apples 335
Summer Sights and Indolences 335
Sundown Perfume － Quail-Notes － The Hermit-Thrush 336
A July Afternoon by the Pond 337
Locusts and Katydids 338
The Lesson of a Tree 339
The Sky － Days and Nights － Happiness 341
Birds and Birds and Birds 342
Full-Starr＇d Nights 343
Mulleins and Mulleins 345
Distant Sounds 345
A Sun-Bath － Nakedness 346
Death of William Cullen Bryant 349
Jaunt Up the Hudson 350
Two City Areas，Certain Hours 350
Central Park Walks and Talks 351
A Fine Afternoon，4 to 6 353
Departing of the Big Steamers 354
Begin a Long Jaunt West 355
In the Sleeper 355
Missouri State 356
Lawrence and Topeka，Kansas 357
On to Denver － A Frontier Incident 357
An Hour on Kenosha Summit 358
An Egotistical＂Find＂ 359
New Senses － New Joys 359
Steam-Power，Telegraphs，＆c 360
America＇s Back-Bone 360
The Parks 361
A Couple of Old Friends － A Coleridge Bit 362
A Week＇s Visit to Boston 363
The Boston of To-Day 364
My Tribute to Four Poets 365
Millet＇s Pictures － Last Items 366
A Discovery of Old Age 368
A Visit，at the Last，to R．W．Emerson 368
Other Concord Notations 370
Boston Common － More of Emerson 371
Death of Longfellow 372
The Great Unrest of Which We Are Part 374
By Emerson＇s Grave 374
At Present Writing － Personal 375
After Trying a Certain Book 376
Final Confessions － Literary Tests 377
Nature and Democracy － Morality 378
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS (SELECTIONS) 380
ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION 416
PREFACE，1855，to first issue of＂Leaves of Grass＂ 422
DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 438
COLLECT：NOTES LEFT OVER 449
Nationality (And Yet) 449
Emerson＇s Books (The Shadows of Them) 452
Ventures，on an Old Theme 455
British Literature 458
Darwinism － (Them Furthermore) 460
＂Society＂ 462
The Tramp and Strike Questions 464
Democracy in the New World 466
Foundation Stages － Then Others 467
General Suffrage，Elections，＆c 468
Who Gets the Plunder？ 469
Friendship (The Real Article) 469
Lacks and Wants Yet 470
Rulers Strictly Out of the Masses 471
Monuments － The Past and Present 472
Little or Nothing New，After All 473
A Lincoln Reminiscence 474
Freedom 474
Book-Classes － America＇s Literature 475
Our Real Culmination 476
An American Problem 477
The Last Collective Compaction 477
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY (SELECTIONS) 478
Inscription for a Little Book on Giordano Bruno 478
Splinters 478
Gay-Heartedness 479
As in a Swoon 480
L of G 480
After the Argument 480
For Us Two，Reader Dear 480
A Sick Spell 481
To Be Present Only 481
＂Intestinal Agitatioin＂ 482
Feeling Fairly 482
Two Questions 483
Out in the Open Again 483
Last Saved Items 484