Walt Whitman's Calamus:
The Hypermedia Critical Edition


INDEX TO 1860 POEMS

Select a poem to follow its productive process from manuscripts to printed variants.
1 "In paths untrodden," 2 "Scented Herbage of My Breast," 3 "Whoever you are, holding me now in hand," 4 "These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers," 5 "States! Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?"
6 "Not hearing from my ribbed breast only," 7 "Of the terrible question of appearances," 8 "Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me--O if I could" 9 "Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted," 10 "You bards of ages hence! When you refer to me, mind not so much my"
11 "When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been recieved" 12 "Are you the new person drawn toward me, and asking something significant" 13 "(For I must change the strain-- these are not to be" 14 "Not heat flames up and consumes," 15 "O drops of me! Trickle, slow drops,"
16 "Who is now reading this?" 17 "Of him I love day and night, I dreamed I heard he was dead," 18 "City of my walks and joys!" 19 "Mind you the the timid models of the rest, the majority" 20 "I saw in Lousiana a live-oak growing,"
21 "Music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning--yet long untaught I" 22 "Passing stranger! You do not know how longingly I look upon you," 23 "This moment as I sit alone, yearning and thoughtful, it seems to me" 24 "I hear it is charged against me that I seek to destroy institutions," 25 "The prarie-grass dividing--its own odor breathing,"
26 "We two boys together clinging," 27 "O Love!" 28 "When I peruse the conquered fame of heros," 29 "One flitting glimpse, caught through an interstice," 31 "A promise and gift to California,"
32 "What think you I take my pen in hand to record?" 33 "No labor-saving machine," 34 "I dreamed a dream, I saw a city invincible to the atttacks of the whole" 35 "To you of New England," 36 "Earth! My likeness!"
37 "A leaf for hand in hand!" 38 "Primevil my love for the woman I love," 39 "Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for" 40 "That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek-" 41 "Among men and women, the multitude, I per-"
42 "To the young man, many things to absorb, to engraft," 43 "O you whom I often and silently come where you" 44 "Here my last words, and the most baffling" 45 "Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visable,"
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