Leaves of Grass

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"Leaves of Grass" is very large poetry collection by Walt Whitman. Whitman expanded and re-wrote it four times since it was initially published in 1855. This is one of the later and "more complete" editions.

Come, said my soul,
Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
That should I after return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
(Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)
Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning—as, first, I here and now
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,

Walt Whitman

BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS

BOOK II.

BOOK III.

BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM

  1. To the Garden the World
  2. From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
  3. I Sing the Body Electric
  4. A Woman Waits for Me
  5. Spontaneous Me
  6. One Hour to Madness and Joy
  7. Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
  8. Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
  9. We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
  10. O Hymen! O Hymenee!
  11. I Am He That Aches with Love
  12. Native Moments
  13. Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
  14. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
  15. Facing West from California's Shores
  16. As Adam Early in the Morning

BOOK V. CALAMUS

BOOK VI.

BOOK VII.

BOOK VIII.

BOOK IX.

BOOK X.

BOOK XI.

BOOK XII.

BOOK XIII.

BOOK XIV.

BOOK XV.

BOOK XVI.

BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE

BOOK XVIII

BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT

BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE

BOOK XXI. DRUM-TAPS

BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

BOOK XXIII.

BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS

BOOK XXV.

BOOK XXVI.

BOOK XXVII.

BOOK XXVIII.

BOOK XXIX.

BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH

BOOK XXXI.

BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT

BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING

BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY

BOOKXXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY