I Am He

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

• Starting from Paumanok

Book III

• Song of Myself

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

• Salut au Monde!

Book VII

• Song of the Open Road

Book VIII

• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Book IX

• Song of the Answerer

Book X

• Our Old Feuillage

Book XI

• A Song of Joys

Book XII

• Song of the Broad-Axe

Book XIII

• Song of the Exposition

Book XIV

• Song of the Redwood-Tree

Book XV

• A Song for Occupations

Book XVI

• A Song of the Rolling Earth
• Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

Book XVII - Birds of Passage

• Song of the Universal
• Pioneers! O Pioneers!
• To You
• France
• Myself and Mine
• Year of Meteors
• With Antecedents

Book XVIII

• A Broadway Pageant

Book XIX - Sea-Drift

• Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
• As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
• Tears
• To the Man-of-War-Bird
• Aboard at a Ship's Helm
• 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 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

• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
• O Captain! My Captain!
• Hush'd Be the CampsTo-Day
• This Dust Was Once the Man

Book - XXIII

• By Blue Ontario's Shore
• Reversals

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

• Proud Music of the Storm

Book XXVI

• Passage to India

Book XXVII

• Prayer of Columbus

Book XXVIII

• The Sleepers
• Transpositions

Book XXIX

• To Think of Time

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 XXXI

• Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
• A Paumanok Picture

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

• 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
• As They Draw to a Close
• Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
• The Untold Want
• Portals
• These Carols
• Now Finale to the Shore
• So Long!

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!