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The Preface: Leaves Of Grass
Book 1 - Inscriptions: To Foreign Lands; To a Historian; To Thee Old Cause; Eidolons; For Him I Sing; When I Read the Book; Beginning My Studies; Beginners; To the States; On Journeys Through the States; To a Certain Cantatrice; Me Imperturbe; Savantism; The Ship Starting; I Hear America Singing; What Place Is Besieged?; Still Though the One I Sing; Shut Not Your Doors; Poets to Come; To You; Thou Reader
Book 2 - Starting from Paumanok: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19
Book 3 - Song of Myself: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 50; 51; 52
Book 4 - Children Of Adam: To the Garden the World; From Pent-Up Aching Rivers; I Sing the Body Electric; A Woman Waits for Me; Spontaneous Me; One Hour to Madness and Joy; Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd; Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals; O Hymen! O Hymenee!; I Am He That Aches with Love; Native Moments; I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ; As Adam Early in the Morning
Book 5 - Calamus: In Paths Untrodden; Scented Herbage of My Breast; Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand; For You, O Democracy; These I Singing in Spring; Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances; The Base of All Metaphysics; Recorders Ages Hence; When I Heard at the Close of the Day; Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?; Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone; Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes; Trickle Drops; City of Orgies; Behold This Swarthy Face; I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing; To a Stranger; This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful; I Hear It Was Charged Against Me; The Prairie-Grass Dividing; We Two Boys Together Clinging; A Promise to California; Here the Frailest Leaves of Me; No Labor-Saving Machine; A Glimpse; A Leaf for Hand in Hand; Earth, My Likeness; What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?; To the East and to the West; Sometimes with One I Love; To a Western Boy; Among the Multitude; O You Whom I Often and Silently Come; That Shadow My Likeness; Full of Life Now
Book 6 - Salut au Monde!: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 10; 11; 12; 13
Book 7 - Song of the Open Road: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15
Book 8 - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
Book 9 - Song of the Answerer: 1; 2
Book 10 - Our Old Feuillage: Our Old Feuillage
Book 11 - A Song of Joys: A Song of Joys
Book 12 - Song of the Broad-Axe: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
Book 13 - Song of the Exposition: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
Book 14 - Song of the Redwood-Tree: 1; 2; 3
Book 15 - A Song for Occupations: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
Book 16 - A Song of the Rolling Earth: 1; 2; 3; 4; Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Book 17 - Birds Of Passage: Song of the Universal; Pioneers! O Pioneers!; To You; France [the 18th Year of these States; Myself and Mine; Year of Meteors [1859-60; With Antecedents
Book 18 - A Broadway Pageant: 1; 2; 3
Book 19 - Sea-drift: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Tears; To the Man-of-War-Bird; On the Beach at Night; The World below the Brine; On the Beach at Night Alone; Song for All Seas, All Ships; Patroling Barnegat; After the Sea-Ship
Book 20 - By The Roadside: A Boston Ballad [1854]; Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]; A Hand-Mirror; Gods; Germs; Thoughts; Perfections; O Me! O Life!; To a President; I Sit and Look Out; To Rich Givers; The Dalliance of the Eagles; Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]; A Farm Picture; The Runner; Beautiful Women; Mother and Babe; Thought; Thought; Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour; Thought; To Old Age; Locations and Times; Offerings; To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
Book 21 - Drum-taps: First O Songs for a Prelude; Eighteen Sixty-One; Beat! Beat! Drums!; From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird; Song of the Banner at Daybreak; Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps; Virginia--The West; City of Ships; Cavalry Crossing a Ford; Bivouac on a Mountain Side; An Army Corps on the March; Come Up from the Fields Father; Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night; A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown; A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim; Not the Pilot; The Wound-Dresser; Long, Too Long America; Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun; Dirge for Two Veterans; Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice; I Saw Old General at Bay; Ethiopia Saluting the Colors; Not Youth Pertains to Me; Race of Veterans; World Take Good Notice; O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy; Look Down Fair Moon; Reconciliation; How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]; As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado; Delicate Cluster; To a Certain Civilian; Lo, Victress on the Peaks; Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]; Adieu to a Soldier; Turn O Libertad
Book 22 - Memories Of President Lincoln: O Captain! My Captain!; This Dust Was Once the Man
Book 23 - By Blue Ontario's Shore: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; Reversals
Book 24 - Autumn Rivulets: As Consequent, Etc.; The Return of the Heroes; There Was a Child Went Forth; Old Ireland; The City Dead-House; This Compost; Unnamed Land; Song of Prudence; The Singer in the Prison; Warble for Lilac-Time; Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]; Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]; Vocalism; To Him That Was Crucified; You Felons on Trial in Courts; Laws for Creations; To a Common Prostitute; I Was Looking a Long While; Thought; Miracles; Sparkles from the Wheel; To a Pupil; Unfolded out of the Folds; What Am I After All; Kosmos; Others May Praise What They Like; Who Learns My Lesson Complete?; Tests; The Torch; O Star of France [1870-71]; The Ox-Tamer; Wandering at Morn; Italian Music in Dakota; With All Thy Gifts; My Picture-Gallery; The Prairie States
Book 25 - Proud Music of the Storm: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
Book 26 - Passage to India: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
Book 27 - Prayer of Columbus: Prayer of Columbus
Book 28 - The Sleepers: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; Transpositions
Book 29 - To Think of Time: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
Book 30 - Whispers Of Heavenly Death: Darest Thou Now O Soul; Whispers of Heavenly Death; Chanting the Square Deific; Of Him I Love Day and Night; Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours; Assurances; Quicksand Years; That Music Always Round Me; What Ship Puzzled at Sea; A Noiseless Patient Spider; O Living Always, Always Dying; To One Shortly to Die; Night on the Prairies; Thought; The Last Invocation; As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing; Pensive and Faltering
Book 31 - Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
Book 32 - From Noon To Starry Night: Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling; Faces; The Mystic Trumpeter; To a Locomotive in Winter; O Magnet-South; Mannahatta; All Is Truth; A Riddle Song; Excelsior; Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats; Thoughts; Mediums; Weave in, My Hardy Life; Spain, 1873-74; Old War-Dreams; Thick-Sprinkled Bunting; What Best I See in Thee; As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days; A Clear Midnight
Book 33 - Songs Of Parting: As the Time Draws Nigh; Years of the Modern; Ashes of Soldiers; Thoughts; Song at Sunset; As at Thy Portals Also Death; My Legacy; Pensive on Her Dead Gazing; Camps of Green; The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]; As They Draw to a Close; Joy, Shipmate, Joy!; The Untold Want; Portals; These Carols; Now Finale to the Shore; So Long!
Book 34 - Sands At Seventy: Mannahatta; Paumanok; From Montauk Point; A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine; The Bravest Soldiers; A Font of Type; As I Sit Writing Here; My Canary Bird; Queries to My Seventieth Year; The Wallabout Martyrs; The First Dandelion; America; Memories; To-Day and Thee; After the Dazzle of Day; Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809; Halcyon Days; FANCIES AT NAVESINK; Election Day, November, 1884; With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!; Death of General Grant; Red Jacket (From Aloft); Of That Blithe Throat of Thine; Broadway; To Get the Final Lilt of Songs; Old Salt Kossabone; The Dead Tenor; Continuities; Yonnondio; Life; "Going Somewhere"; Small the Theme of My Chant; True Conquerors; The United States to Old World Critics; The Calming Thought of All; Thanks in Old Age; Life and Death; The Voice of the Rain; While Not the Past Forgetting; The Dying Veteran; Stronger Lessons; A Prairie Sunset; Twenty Years; Orange Buds by Mail from Florida; Twilight; You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me; Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone; The Dead Emperor; The Dismantled Ship; Now Precedent Songs, Farewell; An Evening Lull; After the Supper and Talk
Book 35 - Good-bye My Fancy: Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!; Lingering Last Drops; Good-Bye My Fancy; On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!; MY 71st Year; Apparitions; The Pallid Wreath; An Ended Day; To the Pending Year; Long, Long Hence; Bravo, Paris Exposition!; Interpolation Sounds; To the Sun-Set Breeze; Old Chants; A Christmas Greeting; Sounds of the Winter; A Twilight Song; When the Full-Grown Poet Came; Osceola; A Voice from Death; A Persian Lesson; The Commonplace; "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"; Mirages; Grand Is the Seen; Unseen Buds; Good-Bye My Fancy!

Book 7 - Song of the Open Road

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Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me,

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,

Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,

Strong and content I travel the open road.

The earth, that is sufficient,

I do not want the constellations any nearer,

I know they are very well where they are,

I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,

I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,

I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,

I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)

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