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Leaves of Grass
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,
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
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Book 1 - Inscriptions
- One's-Self I Sing
- As I Ponder'd in Silence
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
- 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 II
Book III
Book IV - 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
- We Two
- O Hymen! O Hymenee!
- I Am He
- Native Moments
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
- I Heard You
- Facing West from California's Shores
- As Adam Early in the Morning
Book V - Calamus
- In Paths Untrodden
- Scented Herbage of My Breast
- Whoever You Are
- For You, O Democracy
- These I Singing in Spring
- From My Ribb'd Breast Only
- Of the Terrible Doubt
- Metaphysics
- Recorders Ages Hence
- Close of the Day
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
- Roots and Leaves
- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
- Trickle Drops
- City of Orgies
- Behold This Swarthy Face
- Louisiana
- To a Stranger
- This Moment
- I Hear It Was Charged
- The Prairie-Grass
- When I Persue the Conquer'd Fame
- We Two Boys
- A Promise to California
- Here the Frailest
- No Labor-Saving Machine
- A Glimpse
- A Leaf
- Earth, My Likeness
- I Dream'd in a Dream
- What Think You
- To the East and to the West
- Sometimes with One I Love
- To a Western Boy
- Fast Anchor'd
- Among the Multitude
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
- That Shadow My Likeness
- Full of Life Now
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
Book XIII
Book XIV
Book XV
Book XVII - Birds of Passage
Book XVIII
Book XIX - Sea-Drift
Book XX - By the Roadside
- A Boston Ballad
- Europe
- A Hand-Mirror
- Gods
- Germs
- Thoughts
- When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
- Perfections
- O Me! O Life!
- To a President
- I Sit and Look Out
- To Rich Givers
- The Dalliance of the Eagles
- Roaming in Thought
- A Farm Picture
- A Child's Amaze
- The Runner
- Beautiful Women
- Mother and Babe
- Thought
- Visor'd
- Thought
- Gliding O'er all
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
- Thought
- To Old Age
- Locations and Times
- Offerings
- To The States
Book XXI - Drum Taps
- First O Songs for a Prelude
- Eighteen Sixty-One
- Beat! Beat! Drums!
- From Paumanok
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak
- Rise O Days
- Virginia--The West
- City of Ships
- The 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
- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest
- A Sight in Camp
- As Toilsome I Wander'd
- Not the Pilot
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
- 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
- The Artilleryman's Vision
- 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
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap
- Delicate Cluster
- To a Certain Civilian
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done
- Adieu to a Soldier
- Turn O Libertad
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod
Book XXII - Memories of President Lincoln
Book - XXIII
Book XXIV - Autumn Rivulets
- As Consequent, Etc.
- The Return of the Heroes
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- Old Ireland
- The City Dead-House
- This Compost
- To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire
- Unnamed Land
- Song of Prudence
- The Singer in the Prison
- Warble for Lilac-Time
- Outlines for a Tomb
- Out from Behind This Mask
- 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
- The Ox-Tamer
- An Old Man's Thought of School
- Wandering at Morn
- Italian Music in Dakota
- With All Thy Gifts
- My Picture-Gallery
- The Prairie States
Book XXV
Book XXVI
Book XXVII
Book XXVIII
Book XXIX
Book XXX - 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
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
- 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
- Pensive and Faltering
Book XXXII - 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
- By Broad Potomac's Shore
- From Far Dakota's Canyons
- Old War-Dreams
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
- What Best I See in Thee
- Spirit That Form'd This Scene
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
- A Clear Midnight
Book XXXIII - Songs of Parting
Book XXXIV - Sands at Seventy
- Mannahatta
- Paumanok
- From Montauk Point
- To Those Who've Fail'd
- 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
- Out of May's Shows Selected
- Halcyon Days
- Fancies at Navesink
- Election Day, November, 1884
- With Husky-Haughty Lips
- Death of General Grant
- Red Jacket (From Aloft)
- Washington's Monument
- 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
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
- 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
- As the Greek's Signal Flame
- The Dismantled Ship
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
- An Evening Lull
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks
- After the Supper and Talk
Book XXXV - 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
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's
- To the Pending Year
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
- 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
- L. of G.'s Purport
- The Unexpress'd
- Grand Is the Seen
- Unseen Buds
- Good-Bye My Fancy!
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Sexuality in Whitman's Poems
>>Hello<< I'm reading some from Leaves of Grass and am interested in exploring sexuality themes throughout the anthology. From what I understand, Whitman largely presents female-male sensuality, but at some point he basically, "comes out of the closet" and presents some male-male sensuality. Can people suggest particular poems or pieces of poems that exemplify either of these forms of sexuality in his poems? Thanks.;)
Posted By genoveva at Wed 4 Apr 2007, 6:27 PM in Leaves of Grass || 2 Replies