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| Introduction | |
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| Song of Myself | |
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| A Song for Occupations | |
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| To Think of Time | |
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| The Sleepers | |
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| I Sing the Body Electric | |
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| Faces | |
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| There Was a Child Went Forth | |
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| Who Learns My Lesson Complete? | |
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| Unfolded Out of the Folds | |
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| Song of the Broad-Axe | |
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| To You | |
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| This Compost | |
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| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | |
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| Song of the Open Road | |
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| A Woman Waits for Me | |
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| To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire | |
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| Spontaneous Me | |
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| A Song of the Rolling Earth | |
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| Starting from Paumanok | |
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| From Pent-up Aching Rivers | |
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| Me Imperturbe | |
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| I Hear America Singing | |
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| As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life | |
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| You Felons on Trial in Courts | |
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| The World below the Brine | |
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| I Sit and Look Out | |
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| All Is Truth | |
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| Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | |
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| Native Moments | |
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| Once I Pass'd through a Populous City | |
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| Once I Pass'd through a Populous City [draft version] | |
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| Facing West from California's Shores | |
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| As Adam Early in the Morning | |
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| Live Oak, with Moss | |
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| Not Heat Flames up and Consumes | |
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| I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | |
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| When I Heard at the Close of the Day | |
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| This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful | |
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| Calamus 8: "Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me" | |
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| What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? | |
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| Recorders Ages Hence! | |
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| Calamus 9: "Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted" | |
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| I Dreamed in a Dream | |
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| O You Whom I Often and Silently Come | |
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| Earth! My Likeness | |
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| To a Western Boy | |
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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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| Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances | |
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| The Base of All Metaphysis [added 1871] | |
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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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| Of Him I Love Day and Night | |
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| City of Orgies | |
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| To a Stranger | |
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| I Hear It Was Charged against Me | |
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| We Two Boys Together Clinging | |
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| Here the Frailest Leaves of Me | |
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| A Glimpse | |
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| Sometimes with One I Love | |
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| Among the Multitude | |
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| That Shadow My Likeness | |
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| Full of Life Now | |
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| To Him That Was Crucified | |
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| To a Common Prostitute | |
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| To You | |
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| Mannahatta | |
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| A Hand-Mirror | |
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| Visor'd | |
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| As if a Phantom Caress'd Me | |
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| So Long! | |
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| Shut Not Your Doors | |
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| Beat! Beat! Drums! | |
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| City of Ships | |
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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 [1865-66] | |
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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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| The Wound-Dresser | |
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| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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| A Farm Picture | |
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| Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun | |
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| To a Certain Civilian | |
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| Years of the Modern | |
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| Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice | |
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| As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado [1865-66] | |
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| Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | |
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| I Saw Old General at Bay | |
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| Look Down Fair Moon | |
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| Reconciliation [1865-66] | |
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| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd [1865-66] | |
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| O Captain! My Captain! [1865-66] | |
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| Old War-Dreams [1865-66] | |
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| Chanting the Square Deific [1865-66] | |
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| I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ [1865-66] | |
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| One's Self I Sing | |
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| The Runner | |
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| When I Read the Book | |
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| Passage to India | |
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| Proud Music of the Storm | |
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| A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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| The Last Invocation | |
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| On the Beach at Night | |
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| Sparkles from the Wheel | |
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| Gods | |
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| Joy, Shipmate, Joy! | |
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| Ethiopia Saluting the Colors | |
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| The Mystic Trumpeter | |
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| Prayer of Columbus | |
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| To a Locomotive in Winter | |
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| The Ox-Tamer | |
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| The Dalliance of the Eagles | |
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| A Clear Midnight | |
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| As I Sit Writing Here | |
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| Broadway | |
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| Unseen Buds | |
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| Good-bye My Fancy! | |
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| "The Child's Champion" | |
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| Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 | |
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| Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Leaves of Grass, 1856 | |
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| Preface to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," 1872 | |
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| Preface to the Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass, 1876 | |
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| "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," 1888 | |
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| Democratic Vistas | |
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| From Specimen Days | |
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| "Slang in America" | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |