Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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INSCRIPTIONS.
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ONE'S-SELF I SING.
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AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE.
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IN CABIN'D SHIPS AT SEA.
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TO FOREIGN LANDS.
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TO A HISTORIAN.
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TO THEE OLD CAUSE.
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EIDÓLONS.
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FOR HIM I SING.
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WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
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BEGINNING MY STUDIES.
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BEGINNERS.
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TO THE STATES.
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ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES.
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TO A CERTAIN CANTATRICE.
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ME IMPERTURBE.
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SAVANTISM.
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THE SHIP STARTING.
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I HEAR AMERICA SINGING.
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WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED?
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STILL THOUGH THE ONE I SING.
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SHUT NOT YOUR DOORS.
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POETS TO COME.
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TO YOU.
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THOU READER.
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STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.
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SONG OF MYSELF
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CHILDREN OF ADAM.
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TO THE GARDEN THE WORLD
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FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.
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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC.
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A WOMAN WAITS FOR ME.
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SPONTANEOUS ME.
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ONE HOUR TO MADNESS AND JOY.
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OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN THE CROWD.
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AGES AND AGES RETURNING AT INTERVALS.
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WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.
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O HYMEN! O HYMENEE!
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I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH LOVE.
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NATIVE MOMENTS.
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ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
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I HEARD YOU SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES OF THE ORGAN.
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FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORES.
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AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING.
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CALAMUS.
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IN PATHS UNTRODDEN.
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SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY BREAST.
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WHOEVER YOU ARE HOLDING ME NOW IN HAND.
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FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY.
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THESE I SINGING IN SPRING.
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NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST ONLY.
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OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES.
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THE BASE OF ALL METAPHYSICS.
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RECORDERS AGES HENCE.
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WHEN I HEARD AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY.
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ARE YOU THE NEW PERSON DRAWN TOWARD ME?
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ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE.
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NOT HEAT FLAMES UP AND CONSUMES.
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TRICKLE DROPS.
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CITY OF ORGIES.
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BEHOLD THIS SWARTHY FACE.
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I SAW IN LOUISIANA. A LIVE-OAK GROWING.
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TO A STRANGER.
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THIS MOMENT YEARNING AND THOUGHTFUL.
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I HEAR IT WAS CHARGED AGAINST ME.
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THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING.
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WHEN I PERUSE THE CONQUER'D FAME.
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WE TWO BOYS TOGETHER CLINGING.
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A PROMISE TO CALIFORNIA.
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HERE THE FRAILEST LEAVES OF ME.
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NO LABOR-SAVING MACHINE.
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A GLIMPSE.
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A LEAF FOR HAND IN HAND.
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EARTH, MY LIKENESS.
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I DREAM'D IN A DREAM.
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WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND?
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TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST.
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SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE.
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TO A WESTERN BOY.
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FAST ANCHOR'D ETERNAL O LOVE!
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AMONG THE MULTITUDE.
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O YOU WHOM I OFTEN AND SILENTLY COME.
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THAT SHADOW MY LIKENESS.
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FULL OF LIFE NOW.
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SALUT AU MONDE!
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SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.
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CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
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SONG OF THE ANSWERER.
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OUR OLD FEUILLAGE.
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A SONG OF JOYS.
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SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.
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SONG OF THE EXPOSITION.
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SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE.
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A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS.
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A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH.
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YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT.
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BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
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SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL.
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PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!
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TO YOU.
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FRANCE,
The 18th Year of these States
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MYSELF AND MINE.
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YEAR OF METEORS. (1859-60.)
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WITH ANTECEDENTS.
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A BROADWAY PAGEANT.
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SEA-DRIFT.
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OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING.
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AS I EBB'D WITH THE OCEAN OF LIFE.
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TEARS.
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TO THE MAN-OF-WAR-BIRD.
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ABOARD AT A SHIP'S HELM.
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ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT.
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THE WORLD BELOW THE BRINE.
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ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE.
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SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS.
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PATROLING BARNEGAT.
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AFTER THE SEA-SHIP.
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BY THE ROADSIDE
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A BOSTON BALLAD. (1854.)
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EUROPE,
The 72d and 73d Years of These States
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A HAND-MIRROR.
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GODS.
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GERMS.
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THOUGHTS.
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--WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER.
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PERFECTIONS.
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O ME! O LIFE!
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TO A PRESIDENT.
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I SIT AND LOOK OUT.
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TO RICH GIVERS.
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THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES.
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ROAMING IN THOUGHT. (
After reading
HEGEL.)
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A FARM PICTURE.
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A CHILD'S AMAZE.
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THE RUNNER.
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BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
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MOTHER AND BABE.
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THOUGHT.
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VISOR'D.
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THOUGHT.
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GLIDING O'ER ALL.
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HAST NEVER COME TO THEE AN HOUR.
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THOUGHT.
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TO OLD AGE.
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LOCATIONS AND TIMES.
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OFFERINGS.
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TO THE STATES,
To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad
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DRUM-TAPS.
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FIRST O SONGS FOR A PRELUDE.
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EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE.
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BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
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FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD.
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SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK.
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RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS.
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VIRGINIA --THE WEST.
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CITY OF SHIPS.
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THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.
Volunteer of 1861-2,
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at Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting the Centenarian
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CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD.
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BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.
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AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH.
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BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME.
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COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER.
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VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT.
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A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST, AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN.
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A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM.
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AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS.
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NOT THE PILOT.
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YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME.
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THE WOUND-DRESSER.
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LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA.
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GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN.
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DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS.
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OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE.
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I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY.
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THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION.
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ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS.
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NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME.
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RACE OF VETERANS.
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WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE.
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O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.
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LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON.
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RECONCILIATION.
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HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE. (
Washington City, 1865
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AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO.
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DELICATE CLUSTER.
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TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN.
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LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS.
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SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE. (
Washington City,
1865.)
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ADIEU TO A SOLDIER.
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TURN O LIBERTAD.
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TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD.
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MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
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WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D.
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O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
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HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY. (
May
4, 1865.)
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THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN.
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BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE
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REVERSALS.
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AUTUMN RIVULETS.
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AS CONSEQUENT,
Etc.
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THE RETURN OF THE HEROES.
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THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH.
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OLD IRELAND.
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THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE.
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THIS COMPOST.
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TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE.
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UNNAMED LANDS.
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SONG OF PRUDENCE.
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THE SINGER IN THE PRISON.
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WARBLE FOR LILAC-TIME.
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OUTLINES FOR A TOMB.
(
G. P., Buried
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OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK.
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To Confront a Portrait
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VOCALISM.
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TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED.
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YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS.
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LAWS FOR CREATIONS.
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TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE.
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I WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE.
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THOUGHT.
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MIRACLES.
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SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL.
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TO A PUPIL.
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UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS.
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WHAT AM I AFTER ALL.
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KOSMOS.
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OTHERS MAY PRAISE WHAT THEY LIKE.
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WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?
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TESTS.
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THE TORCH.
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O STAR OF FRANCE.
1870-71.
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THE OX-TAMER.
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AN OLD MAN'S THOUGHT OF SCHOOL.
For the Inauguration of a Public School, Camden, New Jersey, 1874
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WANDERING AT MORN.
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ITALIAN MUSIC IN DAKOTA.
["
The Seventeenth --the finest Regimental Band I ever heard
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WITH ALL THY GIFTS.
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MY PICTURE-GALLERY.
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THE PRAIRIE STATES.
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PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA.
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PRAYER OF COLUMBUS.
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THE SLEEPERS.
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TRANSPOSITIONS.
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TO THINK OF TIME.
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WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH.
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DAREST THOU NOW O SOUL.
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WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH.
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CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC.
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OF HIM I LOVE DAY AND NIGHT.
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YET, YET, YE DOWNCAST HOURS.
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AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS'D ME.
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ASSURANCES.
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QUICKSAND YEARS.
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THAT MUSIC ALWAYS ROUND ME.
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WHAT SHIP PUZZLED AT SEA.
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A NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER.
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O LIVING ALWAYS, ALWAYS DYING.
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TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE.
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NIGHT ON THE PRAIRIES.
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THOUGHT.
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THE LAST INVOCATION.
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AS I WATCH'D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING.
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PENSIVE AND FALTERING.
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THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD.
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A PAUMANOK PICTURE.
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FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.
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THOU ORB ALOFT FULL-DAZZLING.
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FACES.
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THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER.
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TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER.
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O MAGNET-SOUTH.
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MANNAHATTA.
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ALL IS TRUTH.
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A RIDDLE SONG.
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EXCELSIOR.
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AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS.
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THOUGHTS.
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MEDIUMS.
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WEAVE IN, MY HARDY LIFE.
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SPAIN, 1873-74.
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BY BROAD POTOMAC'S SHORE.
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FROM FAR DAKOTA'S CAñONS.
June 25, 1876
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OLD WAR-DREAMS.
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THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING.
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WHAT BEST I SEE IN THEE.
To U. S. G. return'd from his World's Tour
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SPIRIT THAT FORM'D THIS SCENE.
Written in Platte Cañon, Colorado
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AS I WALK THESE BROAD MAJESTIC DAYS.
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A CLEAR MIDNIGHT.
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SONGS OF PARTING.
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AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH.
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YEARS OF THE MODERN.
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ASHES OF SOLDIERS.
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THOUGHTS.
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SONG AT SUNSET.
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AS AT THY PORTALS ALSO DEATH.
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MY LEGACY.
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PENSIVE ON HER DEAD GAZING.
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CAMPS OF GREEN.
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THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS.
(
Midnight, Sept, 19-20, 1881
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AS THEY DRAW TO A CLOSE.
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JOY, SHIPMATE, JOY!
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THE UNTOLD WANT.
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PORTALS.
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THESE CAROLS.
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NOW FINALÈ TO THE SHORE.
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SO LONG!