Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 . Leaves of Grass
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LEAVES
OF
GRASS.


New-York. 1867.

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ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by WALT WHITMAN, in the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York.


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CONTENTS.

   
Inscription....................... 5
Starting from Paumanok............ 8
Walt Whitman...................... 23
CHILDREN OF ADAM
To the Garden, the World.......... 93
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers........ --
I Sing the Body Electric.......... 93
A Woman Waits for Me.............. 108
Spontaneous Me.................... 110
One Hour to Madness and Joy....... 112
We Two, how long we were fool'd... 114
Native Moments.................... 115
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City --
Facing West from California's Shores 116
Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals --
O Hymen! O Hymence!............... 117
I am He that Aches with Love...... --
As Adam, Early in the Morning..... --
Excelsior......................... 118
CALAMUS.
In Paths Untrodden................ 119
Scented Herbage of my Breast...... 120
Whoever you are Holding Me now in Hand 112
These, I, Singing in Spring....... 124
A Song............................ 125
Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast only 126
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 127
Recorders Ages Hence.............. 128
When I Heard at the Close of the day --
Are you the New Person Drawn Toward me? 129
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone. 130
Not Heat Flames up and Consumers.. 131
Trickle, Drops.................... --
Of Him I love Day and Night....... 132
City of Orgies.................... 133
Behold this Swarthy Face.......... --
I saw in Louisiana a Live wing.... 134
That Music Always Round Me........ --
To a Stranger..................... 135
This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful 136
I Hear it was Charged Against Me.. 136
The Prairie-Grass Dividing........ 137
We Two Boys Together Clinging..... --
O Living Always-Always Dying...... 138
When I Peruse the Conquer'd....... --
Fame.............................. --
A Glimpse......................... --
A Promise to California........... 139
Here, Sailor !.................... --
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me.... 140
What Think you, I take my Pen in Hand --
No Labor-Saving Machine........... --
I Dream'd in a Dream.............. 141
To the East and to the West....... --
Earth, my Likeness................ --
A Leaf for Hand in Hand........... 142
Fast Anchor'd, Eternal............ --
Sometimes, with One I Love........ --
That Shadow, my Likeness.......... 143
Among the Multitude............... --
To a Western Boy.................. --
O You whom I often and Silently Come 144
Full of Life, Now................. --
Salut au Monde.................... 145
What Place is Besieged !.......... 158
LEAVES OF GRASS.
"There was a child went forth".... 159
"Myself and mine gymnastic ever".. 161
"Who learns my lesson complete!".. 163
"Whoever you are, I fear," &c..... 165
Beginners......................... 163
Tests............................. --
Perfections....................... --
Song of the Broad-Axe............. 169
With Antecedents.................. 182
Savantism......................... 184
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry........... 185
To a Foil'd Revolter or Revoltress 193
To get Betimes in Boston Town..... 195
To a Common Prostitute............ 197
To a Pupil........................ 198
To Rich Givers.................... --
A Word Out of the Sea............. 199
A Leaf of Faces................... 207
Stronger Lessons.................. 211
Europe, the 72d and 73d years of
     These States......................		 212
Thought........................... 214



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The Runner...................... 214
To the Sayers of Words.......... 215
Longings for Home............... 222
To a President.................. 234
Walt Whitman's Caution.......... --
To Other Lands.................. --
Song of the Open Road........... 225
To the States, to Identify the
     16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad		 238
To a Certain Cantatrice......... --
To Workingmen................... 239
Debris.......................... 243
LEAVES OF GRASS.
"O hastening light!"............ 249
"Tears! tears! tears!".......... --
"Aboard at a ship's helm,"...... 250
American Feuillage.............. 251
Mannahatta...................... 257
To You.......................... 258
France, the 18th Year of These
     States..........................		 259
A Hand-Mirror................... 260
THOUGHTS.
"Of the visages of things"...... 261
"Of waters, forests, hills"..... --
"Of persons arrived at high
     positions,".....................		 262
"Of ownership,"................. --
"As I sit with others, at great
     feast"........................		 --
"Of what I write from myself"... 263
"Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness" --
To Him that was Crucified....... 264
To Old Age...................... --
To One Shortly to Die........... 263
To You.......................... --
Unnamed Lands................... 266
Kosmos.......................... 267
When I read the Book............ 268
Says............................ 269
Despairing Cries................ 270
Picture......................... --
Poems of Joy.................... 271
Respondes!...................... 280
The City Dead-House............. 284
Leaflets........................ --
LEAVES OF GRASS.
"Think of the Soul"............. 285
"Unfolded out of the folds of
     the woman".....................		 286
"Night on the prairies"......... 287
"The world below the brine"..... 288
"I sit and look out upon all the
     sorrows of the world"..........		 289
Visor'd......................... --
Not the Pilot................... 290
As if a Phantom Caress'd Me..... --
Great are the Myths............. 291
Morning Romania................. 294
Burial.......................... 296
This Compost!................... 306
I hear America Singing.......... 308
Manhattan's streets I saunter'd. 309
I was Looking a Long While...... 312
The Indications................. 313
LEAVES OF GRASS.
"On the beach at night alone"... 315
"To oratists -- to male and
     female"........................		 --
"Laws for Creations"............ 317
"Poets to come!"................ --
Me Imperturbe................... 318
Sleep-Chasings.................. 319
Elemental Drifts................ 331
Miracles........................ 335
You Felons on Trial in Courts... 336
Mediums......................... 337
Now Lift me Close............... 338

   DRUM-TAPS.

   See Table of Contents prefixed.

   SONGS BEFORE PARTING.

   See Table of Contents prefixed.



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INSCRIPTION.

   This poem is a part of Leaves of Grass

   This poem is an instance of "One's Self I Sing"

   The most immediate predecessor of this poem is the manuscript titled "Inscription: at the entrance of Leaves of Grass"

SMALL is the theme of the following Chant, yet the
     greatest -- namely, ONE'S-SELF -- that wondrous
     thing, a simple, separate person. That, for the
     use of the New World, I sing.
Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not
     physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for
     the muse; -- I say the Form complete is worthier
     far. The female equally with the male, I sing.
Nor cease at the theme of One's-Self. I speak the word
     of the modern, the word EN-MASSE.
My Days I sing, and the Lands -- with interstice I knew
     of hapless War.
O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to com-
     mence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of
     your hand, which I return. And thus upon our
     journey link'd together let us go.