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Acknowledgements | |
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Table of Dates | |
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Introduction | |
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Further Reading | |
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A Note on the Text | |
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Leaves of Grass | |
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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 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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 Canons (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 | |
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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 | |
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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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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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Good-Bye My Fancy | |
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Preface Note to Second 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 and 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 | |
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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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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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[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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Bathed in War's Perfume | |
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Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb | |
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Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me | |
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This Day, O Soul | |
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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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Lessons | |
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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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Early Poems | |
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Our Future Lot | |
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Young Grimes | |
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Fame's Vanity | |
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My Departure | |
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The Death of the Nature-Lover | |
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The Inca's Daughter | |
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The Love That Is Hereafter | |
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We All Shall Rest at Last | |
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The Spanish Lady | |
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The End of All | |
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The Columbian's Song | |
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The Punishment of Pride | |
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Ambition | |
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The Death and Burial of McDonald Clarke | |
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Time to Come | |
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The Play-Ground | |
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Ode | |
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New Year's Day, 1848 | |
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The House of Friends | |
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Resurgemus | |
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The Mississippi at Midnight | |
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Song for Certain Congressmen | |
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Blood-Money | |
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Pictures | |
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Song of Myself: The Text from the First Edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) | |
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Prefaces | |
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Leaves of Grass, 1855 | |
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Leaves of Grass, 1856 | |
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As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, 1872 | |
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Preface, 1876 | |
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A Sketch | |
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Notes | |
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Index of Titles | |
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Index of First Lines | |