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| The Age of Realism | |
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| “Preface to the 1885 Edition of Leaves of Grass.” | |
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| From Inscriptions. “One''s-Self I Sing.” | |
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| “When I read the book.” | |
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| Song of Myself | |
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| From Children of Adam | |
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| “From pent-up aching rivers.” | |
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| “Out of the rolling ocean the crowd.” | |
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| “Once I pass''d through a populous city.” | |
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| “Facing west from California''s shores.” | |
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| From Calamus | |
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| “In paths untrodden.” | |
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| “Scented herbage of my breast.” | |
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| “For You O Democracy.” | |
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| “I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing.” | |
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| “I hear it was charged against me.” | |
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| “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” | |
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| From 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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| From By the Roadside | |
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| “When I heard the learn''d astronomer.” | |
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| “The Dalliance of the Eagles.” | |
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| From Drum-Taps | |
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| “Beat! Beat! Drums!” “Cavalry Crossing a Ford.” | |
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| “Bivouac on a Mountain Side.” | |
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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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| “The Wound-Dresser.” | |
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| “Give me the splendid silent sun.” | |
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| From Memories of President Lincoln | |
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| “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom''d.” | |
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| From Autumn Rivulets | |
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| “There was a child went forth.” | |
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| “Passage to India.” | |
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| “The Sleepers.” | |
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| From Whispers of Heavenly Death | |
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| “Chanting the square deific.” | |
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| “A noiseless patient spider.” | |
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| From Noon to Starry Night | |
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| “To a Locomotive in Winter.” | |
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| From Goody-Bye My Fancy | |
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| “L. of G.''s Purport.” | |
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| From Democratic Vistas | |
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| “49. I never lost as much but twice.” | |
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| “67. Success is counted sweetest.” | |
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| “125. For each ecstatic instant.” | |
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| “130. These are the days when Birds come back.” | |
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| “165. A Wounded Deer — leaps highest.” | |
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| “185. “Faith” is a fine invention." | |
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| “210. The thought beneath so slight a film.” | |
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| “214. I taste a liquor never brewed.” | |
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| “216. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers.” | |
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| “241. I like a look of Agony.” | |
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| “249. Wild Nights — Wild Nights!” | |
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| “258. There''s a certain Slant of light.” | |
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| “280. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.” | |
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| “287. A Clock stopped.” | |
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| “303. The Soul selects her own Society.” | |
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| “324. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church.” | |
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| “328. A Bird came down the Walk.” | |
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| “338. I know that He exists.” | |
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| “341. After great pain, a formal feeling comes.” | |
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| “401. What Soft — Cherubic Creatures.” | |
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| “414. Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch.” | |
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| “435. Much Madness is divinest Sense.” | |
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| “441. This is my letter to the World.” | |
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| “448. This was a Poet — It is That.” | |
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| “449. I died for Beauty — but was scarce.” | |
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| “465. I heard a Fly buzz — when I died.” | |
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| “510. It was not Death, for I stood up.” | |
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| “520. I started Early — Took my Dog.” | |
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| “585. I like to see it lap the Miles.” | |
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| “613. They shut me up in Prose.” | |
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| “632. The Brain — is wider than the sky.” | |
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| “640. I cannot live with You —.” | |
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| “650. Pain — has an Element of Blank.” | |
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| “657. I dwell in Possibility.” | |
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| “670. One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted.” | |
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| “709. Publication — is the Auction.” | |
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| “712. Because I could not stop for Death.” | |
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| “732. She rose to His Requirement — dropt.” | |
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| “745. Renunciation — is a piercing Virtue.” | |
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| “754. My life had stood — a Loaded Gun.” | |
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| “764. Presentiment — is that long Shadow — on the Lawn.” | |
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| “976. Death is a Dialogue between.” | |
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| “986. A narrow Fellow in the Grass.” | |
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| “1052. I never saw a Moor.” | |
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| “1078. The Bustle in a House.” | |
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| “1129. Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” | |
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| “1207. He preached upon ” Breadth" till it argued him narrow." | |
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| “1463. A Route of Evanescence.” | |
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| “1545. The Bible is an antique Volume.” | |
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| “1624. Apparently with no surprise.” | |
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| “1670. In Winter in my Room.” | |
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| “1732. My life closed twice before its close.” | |
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| “1755. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee.” | |
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| “1760. Elysium is as far as to.” | |
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| “A New England Nun.” | |
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| “A White Heron.” | |
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| “Tennessee''s Partner.” | |
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| “Belles Demoiselles Plantation.” | |
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| “The Goophered Grapevine.” | |
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| “How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox.” | |
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| “Free Joe and the Rest of the World.” | |
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| “The Dandy Frightening the Squatter.” | |
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| “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” | |
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| From Old Times on the Mississippi | |
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| “A Boy Wants to Be a Pilot.” | |
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| “A `Cub'' Pilot''s Experience; or, Learning the River.” | |
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| “The Continued Perplexities of `Cub'' Piloting.” | |
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| “Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech.” | |
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| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| “How to Tell a Story.” | |
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| From Letters from the Earth | |
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| “Letter III.& | |