Contents
COPYRIGHT INFO 22
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER 23
The MEGAPACK™ Ebook Series 26
LEAVES OF GRASS 34
BOOK I 35
One’s-Self I Sing 36
As I Ponder’d in Silence 37
In Cabin’d Ships at Sea 38
To Foreign Lands 40
To a Historian 41
To Thee Old Cause 42
Eidolons 43
For Him I Sing 47
When I Read the Book 48
Beginning My Studies 49
Beginners 50
To the States 51
On Journeys Through the States 52
To a Certain Cantatrice 53
Me Imperturbe 54
Savantism 55
The Ship Starting 56
I Hear America Singing 57
What Place Is Besieged? 58
Still Though the One I Sing 59
Shut Not Your Doors 60
Poets to Come 61
To You 62
Thou Reader 63
BOOK II 64
Starting from Paumanok 65
BOOK III 80
Song of Myself 81
BOOK IV 149
To the Garden the World 150
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 151
I Sing the Body Electric 154
A Woman Waits for Me 164
Spontaneous Me 166
One Hour to Madness and Joy 169
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 171
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 172
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d 173
O Hymen! O Hymenee! 174
I Am He That Aches with Love 175
Native Moments 176
Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City 177
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 178
Facing West from California’s Shores 179
As Adam Early in the Morning 180
BOOK V. 181
In Paths Untrodden 182
Scented Herbage of My Breast 183
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 186
For You, O Democracy 188
These I Singing in Spring 189
Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only 191
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 192
The Base of All Metaphysics 194
Recorders Ages Hence 195
When I Heard at the Close of the Day 196
Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? 197
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 198
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes 199
Trickle Drops 200
City of Orgies 201
Behold This Swarthy Face 202
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 203
To a Stranger 204
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 205
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 206
The Prairie-Grass Dividing 207
When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame 208
We Two Boys Together Clinging 209
A Promise to California 210
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 211
No Labor-Saving Machine 212
A Glimpse 213
A Leaf for Hand in Hand 214
Earth, My Likeness 215
I Dream’d in a Dream 216
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 217
To the East and to the West 218
Sometimes with One I Love 219
To a Western Boy 220
Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love! 221
Among the Multitude 222
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 223
That Shadow My Likeness 224
Full of Life Now 225
BOOK VI 226
Salut au Monde! 227
BOOK VII 239
Song of the Open Road 240
BOOK VIII 252
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 253
BOOK IX 261
Song of the Answerer 262
BOOK X 268
Our Old Feuillage 269
BOOK XI 275
A Song of Joys 276
BOOK XII 285
Song of the Broad-Axe 286
BOOK XIII 299
Song of the Exposition 300
BOOK XIV 311
Song of the Redwood-Tree 312
BOOK XV 317
A Song for Occupations 318
BOOK XVI 327
A Song of the Rolling Earth 328
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 335
BOOK XVII 336
Song of the Universal 337
Pioneers! O Pioneers! 340
To You 345
France 348
Myself and Mine 350
Year of Meteors 352
With Antecedents 354
BOOK XVIII 357
A Broadway Pageant 358
BOOK XIX 363
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 364
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life 371
Tears 375
To the Man-of-War-Bird 376
Aboard at a Ship’s Helm 377
On the Beach at Night 378
The World below the Brine 380
On the Beach at Night Alone 381
Song for All Seas, All Ships 382
Patroling Barnegat 384
After the Sea-Ship 385
BOOK XX 386
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