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Book: Leaves of Grass

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  • One's Self I Sing
    ONE'S-SELF I sing--a simple, separate Person;
    Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse.
    9 lines, 5 comments
  • Unfolded Out Of The Folds
    UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is
            always to come unfolded;
    23 lines
  • From Pent-up Aching Rivers
    FROM pent-up, aching rivers;
    From that of myself, without which I were&
    81 lines
  • Song of Myself
    I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
    And what I assume you shall assume,
    1731 lines, 11 comments
  • I Sing The Body Electric
    I sing the Body electric;
    The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
    305 lines
  • O Captain! My Captain!
    O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
    The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
    24 lines, 11 comments
  • A Woman Waits For Me
    A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking,
    Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of th
    68 lines, 1 comment
  • Old Ireland
    FAR hence, amid an isle of wondrous beauty,
    Crouching over a grave, an ancient, sorrowful mother,
    25 lines
  • I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
    I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy
    institutions;
    11 lines, 2 comments
  • To One Shortly To Die
    From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
    You are to die—Let others tell you what they please, I cannot
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Among The Multitude
    AMONG the men and women, the multitude,
    I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
    8 lines
  • Reconciliation
    WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
    Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be
    10 lines
  • I Sit And Look Out
    I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
            oppression and shame;
    18 lines, 9 comments
  • When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
    WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer;
    When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
    10 lines, 8 comments
  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
    FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face;
    Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face
    288 lines, 1 comment
  • A Noiseless Patient Spider
    A NOISELESS, patient spider,
    I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, i
    13 lines, 6 comments
  • I Hear America Singing
    I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear;
    Those of mechanics--e
    18 lines, 10 comments
  • The Dalliance Of The Eagles
    SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
    Skyward in air&nb
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • To A Common Prostitute
    BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty
            as Nature;
    12 lines
  • Had I the Choice
    Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
    To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
    9 lines
  • A Carol Of Harvest For 1867
    A SONG of the good green grass!
      A song no more of the city streets;
    245 lines
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  • Red Rocket
    July 9
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    I just watched Intolerance (1916) and am looking for the poetry that inspired the film. Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass: "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. Uniter of Here and Hereafter - Chanter of Sorrows and Joys."

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