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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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Here is the efflux of the soul,

The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates,

ever provoking questions,

These yearnings why are they? these thoughts in the darkness why are they?

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight

expands my blood?

Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious

thoughts descend upon me?

(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always

drop fruit as I pass;)

What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?

What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?

What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by

and pause?

What gives me to be free to a woman's and man's good-will? what

gives them to be free to mine?

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