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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Text of Leaves of Grass, 1891-1892 | |
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| Epigraph: Come, said my Soul | |
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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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| Eidolons | |
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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 Dreamed 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 | |
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| Myself and Mine | |
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| Year of Meteors | |
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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 | |
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| Europe | |
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| A Hand-Mirror | |
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| Gods | |
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| Germs | |
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| Thoughts [Of ownership--] | |
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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 | |
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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 [Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness] | |
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| Visor'd | |
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| Thought [Of Justice--] | |
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| Gliding o'er All | |
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| Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour | |
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| Thought [Of Equality--] | |
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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 | |
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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 Notic | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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| Out from behind This Mask | |
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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 [Of persons arrived at high positions] | |
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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 | |
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| The Ox-Tamer | |
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| An Old Man's Thought of School | |
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| Wandering at Morn | |
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| Italian Music in Dakota | |
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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 [As I sit with others at a great feast] | |
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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 [Of public opinion] | |
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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 Canons | |
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| Old War-Dreams | |
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| Thick-Sprinkled Bunting | |
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| What Best I See in Thee | |
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| Spirit That Form'd This Scene | |
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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 [Of these years I sing] | |
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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 | |
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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 Finale to the Shore | |
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| So Long! | |
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| First Annex: Sands At Seventy | |
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| Mannahatta | |
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| Paumanok | |
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| From Montauk Point | |
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| To Those Who've Fail'd | |
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| A Carol Closing Sixty-nine | |
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| The Bravest Soldiers | |
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| A Font of Type | |
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| As I Sit Writing Here | |
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| My Canary Bird | |
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| Queries to My Seventieth Year | |
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| The Wallabout Martyrs | |
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| The First Dandelion | |
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| America | |
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| Memories | |
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| To-day and Thee | |
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| After the Dazzle of Day | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 | |
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| Out of May's Shows Selected | |
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| Halcyon Days | |
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| Fancies at Navesink | |
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| The Pilot in the Mist | |
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| Had I the Choice | |
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| You Tides with Ceaseless Swell | |
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| Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning | |
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| And Yet Not You Alone | |
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| Proudly the Flood Comes In | |
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| By That Long Scan of Waves | |
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| Then Last of All | |
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| Election Day, November, 1884 | |
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| With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! | |
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| Death of General Grant | |
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| Red Jacket (from Aloft) | |
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| Washington's Monument, February, 1885 | |
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| Of That Blithe Throat of Thine | |
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| Broadway | |
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| To Get the Final Lilt of Songs | |
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| Old Salt Kossabone | |
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| The Dead Tenor | |
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| Continuities | |
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| Yonnondio | |
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| Life | |
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| "Going Somewhere" | |
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| Small the Theme of My Chant | |
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| True Conquerors | |
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| The United States to Old World Critics | |
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| The Calming Thought of All | |
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| Thanks in Old Age | |
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| Life and Death | |
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| The Voice of the Rain | |
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| Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here | |
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| While Not the Past Forgetting | |
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| The Dying Veteran | |
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| Stronger Lessons | |
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| A Prairie Sunset | |
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| Twenty Years | |
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| Orange Buds by Mail from Florida | |
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| Twilight | |
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| You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me | |
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| Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone | |
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| The Dead Emperor | |
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| As the Greek's Signal Flame | |
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| The Dismantled Ship | |
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| Now Precedent Songs, Farewell | |
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| An Evening Lull | |
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| Old Age's Lambent Peaks | |
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| After the Supper and Talk | |
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| Second Annex: Good-Bye My Fancy | |
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| Preface Note to 2d Annex | |
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| Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! | |
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| Lingering Last Drops | |
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| Good-Bye My Fancy | |
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| On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! | |
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| My 71st Year | |
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| Apparitions | |
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| The Pallid Wreath | |
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| An Ended Day | |
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| Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's | |
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| To the Pending Year | |
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| Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher | |
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| Long, Long Hence | |
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| Bravo, Paris Exposition! | |
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| Interpolation Sounds | |
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| To the Sun-Set Breeze | |
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| Old Chants | |
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| A Christmas Greeting | |
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| Sounds of the Winter | |
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| A Twilight Song | |
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| When the Full-grown Poet Came | |
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| Osceola | |
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| A Voice from Death | |
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| A Persian Lesson | |
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| The Commonplace | |
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| "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" | |
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| Mirages | |
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| L. of G.'s Purport | |
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| The Unexpress'd | |
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| Grand Is the Seen | |
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| Unseen Buds | |
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| Good-Bye My Fancy! | |
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| A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads and Prefatory Letter | |
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| Prefatory Letter to the Reader, Leaves of Grass 1889 | |
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| A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads | |
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| Old Age Echoes | |
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| An Executor's Diary Note, 1891 | |
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| To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power | |
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| Then Shall Perceive | |
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| The Few Drops Known | |
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| One Thought Ever at the Fore | |
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| While Behind All Firm and Erect | |
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| A Kiss to the Bride | |
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| Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish'd Shame | |
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| Supplement Hours | |
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| Of Many a Smutch'd Deed Reminiscent | |
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| To Be at All | |
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| Death's Valley | |
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| On the Same Picture | |
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| A Thought of Columbus | |
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| An Album of Whitman Portraits | |
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| Other Poetry and Prose | |
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| Note on the Texts | |
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| Poems Excluded from Leaves of Grass | |
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| Great Are the Myths | |
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| Poem of Remembrances for a Girl or a Boy of These States | |
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| Think of the Soul | |
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| Respondez! | |
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| [In the New Garden] | |
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| [Who Is Now Reading This?] | |
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| [Long I Thought That Knowledge Alone Would Suffice] | |
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| [Hours Continuing Long] | |
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| [So Far, and So Far, and On Toward the End] | |
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| Thoughts--1: Visages | |
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| Leaflets | |
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| Thoughts--6: "Of What I Write" | |
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| Says | |
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| Apostroph | |
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| O Sun of Real Peace | |
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| To You | |
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| Now Lift Me Close | |
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| To the Reader at Parting | |
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| Debris | |
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| [States!] | |
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| Thoughts--2: "Of Waters, Forests, Hills" | |
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| Thoughts--4: "Of Ownership ..." | |
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| Bathed in War's Perfume | |
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| Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb | |
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| Up, Lurid Stars! | |
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| Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me | |
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| This Day, O Soul | |
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| When I Read the Book | |
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| Lessons | |
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| Ashes of Soldiers: Epigraph | |
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| One Song, America, Before I Go | |
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| Souvenirs of Democracy | |
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| From My Last Years | |
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| In Former Songs | |
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| The Beauty of the Ship | |
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| After an Interval | |
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| Two Rivulets | |
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| Or from That Sea of Time | |
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| As in a Swoon | |
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| [Last Droplets] | |
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| Ship Ahoy! | |
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| For Queen Victoria's Birthday | |
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| L of G | |
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| After the Argument | |
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| For Us Two, Reader Dear | |
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| Passages Excluded from Leaves of Grass Poems | |
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| [The Writer of Melodious Verses] | |
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| [This Is the Breath for America] | |
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| [Eleves I Salute You!] | |
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| [Old Forever New Things] | |
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| [The Teeming Mother of Mothers] | |
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| [This Is Mastering Me] | |
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| [O Hot-Cheek'd and Blushing] | |
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| [Now Lucifer Was Not Dead] | |
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| [Invocation: To Workmen and Workwomen] | |
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| [Facts Showered Over with Light] | |
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| [Language for America] | |
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| [His Shape Arises] | |
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| [A Thought of the Clef of Eternity] | |
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| [What Do You Hear, Walt Whitman?] | |
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| [You Dumb Beautiful Ministers] | |
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| [Which Are My Miracles?] | |
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| [You Who Celebrate Bygones!] | |
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| [Creations for Strong Artists] | |
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| [Readers to Come] | |
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| [O Bitter Sprig!] | |
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| [Nearing Departure] | |
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| [Let None Be Content with Me] | |
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| [Realities, the Visions of Poets] | |
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| [Give Me the Clue ... the Word Final] | |
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| [Orators Fit for America] | |
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| [Epigraph: A Carol of Harvest] | |
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| [With Additional Songs Every Spring] | |
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| [Aroused and Angry] | |
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| Uncollected Poems | |
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| Pictures | |
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| [Miscellaneous Fragments for "Pictures"] | |
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| [All That We Are] | |
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| [I Am the Poet] | |
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| [O I Must Not Forget!] | |
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| [Love Is the Cause of Causes] | |
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| [I Last Winter] | |
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| [I Cannot Be Awake] | |
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| Light and Air! | |
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| [Of Your Soul] | |
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| [What the Sun] | |
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| [Have You Supplied] | |
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| [I Do Not Expect] | |
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| Scantlings | |
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| Poem of Existence | |
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| [Until You Can Explain] | |
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| [Remembrances] | |
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| Thought | |
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| To the Future | |
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| To an Exclusive | |
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| As of Forms | |
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| [To This Continent] | |
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| [The Divinest Blessings] | |
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| Thought [Of recognition--] | |
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| [What Would It Bring You] | |
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| The Two Vaults | |
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| Two Antique Records | |
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| O Brood Continental | |
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| Kentucky | |
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| To the Prevailing Bards | |
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| [The Long, Long Solemn Trenches] | |
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| [There Rises in My Brain] | |
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| Ship of Libertad | |
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| After Certain Disastrous Campaigns | |
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| Sights--The Army Corps, Encamped on the War Field | |
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| Sonnet | |
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| While the Schools and the Teachers Are Teaching | |
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| [Two Elegies on Lincoln] | |
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| April 1865 | |
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| Beauty | |
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| [Mask with Their Lids] | |
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| Starry Union | |
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| Hands Round | |
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| Wood Odors | |
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| Unpublished Poems | |
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| A Soul Duet | |
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| To the Poor | |
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| Pictures | |
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| Broadway, 1861 | |
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| [I Too Am Drawn] | |
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| [I Have Lived] | |
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| [I Stand and Look] | |
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| Of My Poems | |
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| My Own Poems | |
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| Of the Democratic Party 58-59-60 | |
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| [To What You Said] | |
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| [While Some I So Deeply Loved] | |
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| Reminiscences 64 | |
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| [Disease and Death] | |
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| Starry Union | |
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| [What the Word of Power] | |
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| Last Words | |
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| [Glad the Jaunts for the Known] | |
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| Champagne in Ice | |
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| To the Soul | |
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| [Two Little Buds] | |
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| [Sunrise] | |
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| Uncollected Manuscript Fragments | |
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| [Sesostris] | |
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| After Death | |
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| [America] | |
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| America to the Old World Bards | |
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| [American Air] | |
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| [War] | |
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| [As Nature] | |
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| We Are | |
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| [As to You] | |
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| [As We Are] | |
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| ? Ashes of Roses | |
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| The Body | |
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| [Can ?] | |
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| [Decoration Day] | |
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| [Divine Is the Person] | |
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| Ebb and Flood Tides | |
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| [The Epos of a Life] | |
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| [The Grappler] | |
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| [Have I Refreshed] | |
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| [Hear My Fife!] | |
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| [I Have Appeared] | |
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| [Immortality] | |
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| [I Admire] | |
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| [I Am a Look] | |
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| [I Am a Student] | |
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| [I Am Become] | |
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| [I Am Not Content] | |
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| [I Am That Halfgrown Angry Boy] | |
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| [I Know Many Beautiful Things] | |
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| [I Know That Amativeness] | |
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| [I Shall Venerate] | |
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| [I Subject All the Teachings] | |
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| [In American Schools] | |
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| [I'll Trace This Garden] | |
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| [It Were Easy to Be Rich] | |
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| [Life, Light] | |
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| [Living Bulbs] | |
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| [Nor Humility's Book] | |
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| [O I See Now] | |
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| [Osirus] | |
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| [The Poet Is a Recruiter] | |
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| [The Power by Which] | |
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| [Prince of Wales] | |
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| [A Procession Without Halt] | |
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| [Remember If You Are Dying] | |
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| [Sanity and Ensemble] | |
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| [Shall We Sky-lark] | |
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| [Ships Sail upon the Waters] | |
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| The Soul's Procession | |
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| [Spirituality, the Unknown] | |
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| [That Is Profitable] | |
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| [These Are the Caravan] | |
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| Proem | |
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| [Undulating, Swiftly Merging] | |
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| [What, Think You] | |
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| [Who Wills with His Own Brain] | |
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| [Why Should I Subscribe] | |
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| [Will You Have the Walls] | |
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| [The Woman That Sells] | |
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| [Poetic Lines in 1855-56 Notebook] | |
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| Prefaces | |
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| Preface 1855--Leaves of Grass, First Edition | |
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| Prefatory Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson--Leaves of Grass 1856 | |
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| Emerson to Whitman, 1855 | |
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| Whitman to Emerson, 1856 | |
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| Preface 1872--As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free | |
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| Preface 1876--Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets | |
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| Leaves of Grass (1855 Text) | |
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| Live Oak, with Moss | |
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| From Democratic Vistas | |
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| From Specimen Days | |
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| Whitman on His Art | |
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| Comments, 1855-1892 | |
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| A Whitman Manuscript | |
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| Criticism | |
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| Criticism 1855-1955 | |
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| Leaves of Grass: A Volume of Poems Just Published | |
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| Leaves of Grass: Broklyn, 1855 | |
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| Fresh Fern Leaves: Leaves of Grass | |
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| [Excerpts from two letters to H. G. O. Blake] | |
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| An Englishwoman's Estimate of Walt Whitman | |
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| The Gospel According to Walt Whitman | |
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| [Whitman in Retrospect] | |
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| Whitman | |
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| [Review of Calamus] | |
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| Whitman | |
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| Some Lines from Whitman | |
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| An Essay on Leaves of Grass | |
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| Recent Criticism | |
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| To Heal a Nation | |
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| To Stand Between: Walt Whitman's Poetics of Merger and Embodiment | |
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| The Twenty-Ninth Bather: Identity, Fluidity, Gender, and Sexuality in Section 11 of "Song of Myself" | |
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| Whitman: Hieroglyphic Bibles and Phallic Songs | |
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| The Poetics of Union in Whitman and Lincoln: An Inquiry toward the Relationship of Art and Policy | |
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| The Poetics of Reconstruction: Whitman the Political Poet after the Civil War | |
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| Walt Whitman: A Chronology | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |