The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics)

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 12
Poems From Leaves of Grass......Page 40
Song of Myself......Page 42
A Song for Occupations......Page 107
To Think of Time......Page 116
The Sleepers......Page 123
I Sing the Body Electric......Page 133
Faces......Page 142
There Was a Child Went Forth......Page 147
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?......Page 150
Unfolded Out of the Folds......Page 152
Song of the Broad-Axe......Page 153
To You......Page 165
This Compost......Page 168
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry......Page 171
Song of the Open Road......Page 178
A Woman Waits for Me......Page 190
To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire......Page 192
Spontaneous Me......Page 194
A Song of the Rolling Earth......Page 197
Starting from Paumanok......Page 204
From Pent-up Aching Rivers......Page 218
Me Imperturbe......Page 221
I Hear America Singing......Page 222
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life......Page 223
You Felons on Trial in Courts......Page 227
The World below the Brine......Page 228
I Sit and Look Out......Page 229
All Is Truth......Page 230
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking......Page 231
Native Moments......Page 238
Once I Pass’d through a Populous City......Page 239
Once I Pass’d through a Populous City [draft version]......Page 240
Facing West from California’s Shores......Page 241
As Adam Early in the Morning......Page 242
II......Page 243
III......Page 244
V.......Page 245
VII.......Page 246
VIII.......Page 247
XI.......Page 248
XII.......Page 249
Scented Herbage of My Breast......Page 250
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand......Page 252
These I Singing in Spring......Page 254
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances......Page 256
Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me?......Page 257
Of Him I Love Day and Night......Page 258
City of Orgies......Page 259
We Two Boys Together Clinging......Page 260
Sometimes with One I Love......Page 261
Full of Life Now......Page 262
To Him That Was Crucified......Page 264
To a Common Prostitute......Page 265
To You......Page 266
Mannahatta......Page 267
A Hand-Mirror......Page 269
Visor’d......Page 270
As if a Phantom Caress’d Me......Page 271
So Long!......Page 272
Beat! Beat! Drums!......Page 276
City of Ships......Page 277
Bivouac on a Mountain Side......Page 278
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame......Page 279
Come Up from the Fields Father......Page 280
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night......Page 281
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown......Page 283
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim......Page 284
The Wound-Dresser......Page 285
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer......Page 288
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun......Page 289
Years of the Modern......Page 291
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice......Page 293
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd......Page 294
Look Down Fair Moon......Page 295
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d......Page 296
Old War-Dreams......Page 306
Chanting the Square Deific......Page 307
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ......Page 309
One’s Self I Sing......Page 310
The Runner......Page 311
When I Read the Book......Page 312
Passage to India......Page 313
Proud Music of the Storm......Page 324
A Noiseless Patient Spider......Page 331
The Last Invocation......Page 332
On the Beach at Night......Page 333
Sparkles from the Wheel......Page 335
Gods......Page 336
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!......Page 337
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors......Page 338
The Mystic Trumpeter......Page 339
Prayer of Columbus......Page 343
To a Locomotive in Winter......Page 346
The Ox-Tamer......Page 348
The Dalliance of the Eagles......Page 349
A Clear Midnight......Page 350
As I Sit Writing Here......Page 351
Broadway......Page 352
Unseen Buds......Page 353
Good-bye My Fancy!......Page 354
Prose Writings......Page 356
The Child’s Champion......Page 358
Preface To Leaves of Grass, 1855......Page 369
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Leaves of Grass, 1856......Page 391
Preface to “As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,” 1872......Page 402
Preface to the Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass, 1876......Page 407
“A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads,” 1888......Page 417
Democratic Vistas......Page 434
From Specimen Days......Page 502
“Slang in America”......Page 596
Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 602
Index of Titles and First Lines......Page 604