Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

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First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time "Nature without check with original energy".Famously written in free verse and brimming with sensuous imagery and an unbridled love of nature and life in all its forms, and containing celebrated poems such as the ebullient 'Song of Myself' - described by Jay Parini as the greatest American poem ever written - and the elegiac 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Leaves of Grass is not only the finest achievement of a highly unique poet, but a founding text for American literature and modern poetry.

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• Publié par: Alma Books
• Date de parution: 05 septembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780714549750
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman


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Leaves of Grass first published in its final form in 1891–92 This edition first published by Alma Classics in 2019
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Contents
Leaves of Grass
Inscriptions
One’s Self I Sing
As I Pondered in Silence
I n Cabined Ships at Sea
T o Foreign Lands
T o a Historian
T o Thee, Old Cause
Eidolons
For Him I Sing
When I Read the Book
Be ginning My Studies
Be ginners
T o the States
O n Journeys through the States
T o a Certain Cantatrice
Me Imperturbé
Sava ntism
T he Ship Starting
I Hear America Singing
What Place Is Besieged?
Still though the One I Sing
Shut Not Your Doors
Poet s to Come
T o Y ou
Thou Reader
Star ting from Paumanok
So ng of Myself
Children of Adam
T o the Garden the World
f rom 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
We Two, How Long We Were Fooled
O Hymen! O Hyménée!
I Am He That Aches with Love
Na tive Moments
Once I Passed through a Populous City
I Heard You, Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
Facing West from California’s Shores
As Adam Early in the Morning
Calamus
i n Paths Untrodden
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now in Hand
Fo r You, O Democracy
These I Singing in Spring
Not Heaving from My Ribbed Breast Only
o f the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
t he 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
T rickle Drops
City of Orgies
Behold this Swarthy Face
I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing
t o a Stranger
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
I Hear It Was Charged against Me
t he Prairie Grass Dividing
When I Peruse the Conquered Fame
We Two Boys Together Clinging
a Promise to California
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
No Labour-Saving Machine
a Glimpse
a Leaf for Hand in Hand
Earth, My Likeness
I Dreamed in a Dream
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
t o the East and to the West
Sometimes with One I Love
t o a Western Boy
Fast-Anchored Eternal, O Love!
Amo ng the Multitude
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
That Shadow, My Likeness
Ful l of Life Now
Sal ut au Monde!
Son g of the Open Road
Cr ossing Brooklyn Ferry
Song of the Answerer
Our Old Feuillage
A Song of Joys
Song of the Broad Axe
Song of the Exposition
Song of the Redwood Tree
A Song for Occupations
A Song of the Rolling Earth
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Birds of Passage
Song of the Universal
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
t o You
France
Myself and Mine
Year of Meteors
With Antecedents
A Broadway Pageant
Sea Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
As I Ebbed with the Ocean of Life
Tears
t o the Man-of-War Bird
Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
o n the Beach at Night
t he World below the Brine
o n the Beach at Night Alone
Song for All Seas, All Ships
Patrolling Barnegat
After the Sea Ship
By the Roadside
a Boston Ballad
Europe
a Hand Mirror
Gods
Germs
Thoughts
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer
Perfections
O Me! O Life!
t o a President
I Sit and Look Out
t o Rich Givers
t he Dalliance of the Eagles
Roaming in Thought
a Farm Picture
a Child’s Amaze
t he Runner
B eautiful Women
M other and Babe
T hought
V isored
T hought
Gliding o’er All
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
Thought
t o Old Age
Locations and Times
Offerings
t o the States
Drum Taps
First, O Songs For a Prelude
Eighteen Sixty-One
Beat, Beat, Drums!
f rom 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
t he Centenarian’s Story
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
An Army Corps on the March
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
Come up from the Fields, Father
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
a March in the Ranks Hard-Pressed, and the Road Unknown
a Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Grey and Dim
As Toilsome I Wandered Virginia’s Woods
N ot the Pilot
Year That Trembled and Reeled beneath Me
t he 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
t he Artilleryman’s Vision
Ethiopia Saluting the Colours
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
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap, Camerado
Delicate Cluster
t o a Certain Civilian
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Spirit Whose Work Is Done
Adieu to a Soldier
Turn, O Libertad
t o the Leavened Soil They Trod
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
O Captain, My Captain!
Hushed Be the Camps Today
This Dust Was Once the Man
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
Reversals
Autumn Rivulets
As Consequent, etc.
t he Return of the Heroes
There Was a Child Went Forth
Old Ireland
t he City Dead-House
This Compost
t o a Foiled European Revolutionaire
Unnamed Lands
Song of Prudence
t he Singer in the Prison
Warble For Lilac Time
Outlines For a Tomb
Out from behind this Mask
Vocalism
t o Him That Was Crucified
You Felons on Trial in Courts
Laws for Creations
t o a Common Prostitute
I Was Looking a Long While
Thought
Miracles
Sparkles from the Wheel
t o a Pupil
Unfolded out of the Folds
What Am I, after All
Cosmos
Others May Praise What They Like
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
Tests
t he Torch
O Star of France
t he Ox-Tamer
An Old Man’s Thought of School
Wandering at Morn
Italian Music in Dakota
With All Thy Gifts
My Picture Gallery
t he Prairie States
Proud Music of the Storm
Passage to India
Prayer of Columbus
The Sleepers
Transpositions
To Think of Time
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Darest Thou Now, O Soul
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Chanting the Square Deific
o f Him I Love Day and Night
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
As if a Phantom Caressed Me
Assurances
Quicksand Years
That Music Always Round Me
What Ship, Puzzled at Sea
a Noiseless, Patient Spider
O Living Always, Always Dying
t o One Shortly to Die
Night on the Prairies
Thought
t he Last Invocation
As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing
Pensive and Faltering
Thou, Mother, with Thy Equal Brood
a Paumanok Picture
From Noon to Starry Night
Thou, Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
Faces
t he Mystic Trumpeter
t o 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
By Broad Potomac’s Shore
f rom Far Dakota’s Canyons
Old War Dreams
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
What Best I See in Thee
Spirit That Formed this Scene
As I Walk these Broad Majestic Days
a Clear Midnight
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
t he Sobbing of the Bells
As They Draw to a Close
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
t he Untold Want
Portals
These Carols
Now Finale to the Shore
So Long!
Annex to Preceding Pages
Sands at Seventy
Mannahatta
Paumanok
f rom Montauk Point
t o Those Who’ve Failed
a Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
t he Bravest Soldiers
a Font of Type
As I Sit Writing Here
My Canary Bird
Queries to My Seventieth Year
t he Wallabout Martyrs
t he First Dandelion
America
Memories
Today and Thee
After the Dazzle of Day
Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
Out of May’s Shows Selected
Halcyon Days
Fancies at Navesink
Election Day, November 1884
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
Death of General Grant
Red Jacket (from Aloft)
Washington’