by Walt Whitman
Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman and the American Reader. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Hindus, Milton. Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage. New York: Rout-ledge, 1997.
Holloway, Emory. “Whitman as Journalist.” Yale Review 11:2 (January 1922), pp. 212-215.
Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.
Kaufman, Alan. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. New York and Emeryville, CA: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999.
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Whitman’s Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Krieg, Joann P. A Whitman Chronology. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998.
Loving, Jerome. Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
——. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
——. “Whitman’s Idea of Women.” In Walt Whitman of Mickle Street: A Centennial Collection, edited by Geoffrey M. Sill. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994, pp. 151-167.
Martin, Robert K., ed. The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.
Miller, James E., Jr. The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman’s Legacy in the Personal Epic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Mullins, Maire. “Leaves of Grass as a Woman’s Book.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10:4 (Spring 1993), pp. 195—208.
Myerson, Joel. Walt Whitman: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.
——. Whitman in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Memoirs, and Interviews by Friends and Associates. Expanded edition. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000.
Perlman, Jim, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 1998.
Perry, Bliss. Walt Whitman, His Life and Work. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
Pollack, Vivian. The Erotic Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Price, Kenneth M., ed. Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Reynolds, David S. A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
——. Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Vintage, 1996.
Rubin, Joseph Jay. The Historic Whitman. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973.
Schmidgall, Gary. Walt Whitman: A Gay Life. New York: Dutton, 1997.
Schyberg, Frederik. Walt Whitman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951.
Shephard, Esther. Walt Whitman’s Pose. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1938.
Sill, Geoffrey, ed. Walt Whitman of Mickle Street. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
Stovall, Floyd. The Foreground of Leaves of Grass. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1974.
Traubel, Horace, Richard M. Bucke, and Thomas Harned, eds. In re Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1893.
Woodress, James, ed. Critical Essays on Walt Whitman. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
WHITMAN AND NEW YORK: CONTEXTS
Anbinder, Taylor. Five Points. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928.
Black, Mary, ed. Old New York in Early Photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace, eds. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Gray, Christopher. New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan’s Significant Buildings and Landmarks. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City. New York: Holt, 1994.
Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Jackson, Kenneth T., and David S. Dunbar, eds. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
LeMaster, J. R., and Donald D. Kummings, eds. Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1998.
Lopate, Phillip, ed. Writing New York: A Literary Anthology. New York: Library of America, 1998.
O‘Connell, Shaun. Remarkable, Unspeakable New York: A Literary History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Sante, Luc. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, and John K. Howat, eds. Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825—1861. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
USEFUL WEB SITES
Library of Congress site for the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwhome.html
The Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies: http://www.micklestreet.rutgers.edu/
The Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass: http://www.sc.edu/ librarylspcolllamlitlwhitman.html
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
Poem titles (in italics) and first lines of poems are listed together alphabetically, with reference to page numbers. In cases where first lines and titles are identical, only the title is listed. As in the text, titles from the First Edition are listed in brackets as their own entry.
A
A batter‘d, wreck’d old man
A carol closing sixty-nine—a résumé—a repetition
A glimpse through an interstice caught
A great year and place
A group of little children with their ways and chatter flow in
A lesser proof than old Voltaire‘s, yet greater
A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands
A mask, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself
A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude
A song, a poem of itself-the word itself a dirge
A song of the rolling earth, and of words according
A thousand perfect men and women appear
A vague mist hanging ‘round half the pages:
A voice from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking
A young man came to me with a message from his brother
Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
Add to your show, before you close it, France
Adieu O soldier
Adieu to a Soldier
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road
After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials
After a week of physical anguish
After an Interval
After an interval, reading, here in the midnight
After surmounting three score and ten
After the Argument
After the dazzle of day is gone
After the Dazzle of Day
After the Sea-Ship
After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds
After the Supper and Talk
After the supper and talk-after the day is done
Again a verse for sake of you
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
(Ah little recks the laborer
Ah, not this marble, dead and cold
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
Ah, whispering, something again, unseen
All Is Truth
All submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul
All you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages
Always our old feuillage!
Ambition
America
Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity
Among the men and women the multitude
Among the Multitude
An ancient song, reciting, ending
An old man bending I come among new faces
And now gentlemen
And whence and why come you?
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower
And Yet Not You Alone
And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb
Apostroph
Apparitions
Apple orchards, the trees all cover’d with blossoms
Approaching, nearing, curious
Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me?
Arm’d year-year of the struggle
Army Corps on the March, An
Artilleryman’s Vision, The
As Adam Early in the Morning
As at Thy Portals Also Death
As consequent from store of summer rains
As Consequent, Etc.
As down the stage again
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
As I Ponder’d in Silence
As I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame
As I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing
As I Sit Writing Here
As I sit writing here, sick and grown old
As I walk these broad majestic days of peace
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing
As if a Phantom Caress’d Me
As in a Swoon
As in a swoon, one instant
As one by one withdraw the lofty actors
As the Greek’s Signal Flame
As the Greek’s signal flame, by antique records told
As the time draws nigh glooming a cloud
As the Time Draws Nigh
As They Draw to a Close
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
Ashes of soldiers South or North
Ashes of Soldiers
Ashes of Soldiers: Epigraph
Assurances
At the last, tenderly
AUTUMN RIVULETS
Aye, well I know ‘tis ghastly to descend that valley
B
Backward Glance o‘er Travel’d Roads
Base of All Metaphysics, The
Bathed in War’s Perfume
Bathed in war’s perfume-delicate flag!
Be composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Beautiful Women
Beauty of the Ship, The
Before the dark-brow’d sons of Spain
Beginners
Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much
Beginning My Studies
Behold around us pomp and pride;
Behold This Swarthy Face
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
Blood-Money
[Boston Ballad, A]
Boston Ballad (1854), A
Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight
Bravest Soldiers, The
Bravo, Paris Exposition!
Broadway
Broadway Pageant, A
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
By Broad Potomac’s Shore
By broad Potomac’s shore, again old tongue
By That Long Scan of Waves
By that long scan of waves, myself call’d back, resumed upon myself
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
By the city dead-house by the gate
BY THE ROADSIDE
C
CALAMUS
Calamus.
Calamus.
Calamus.
Calamus.
California song, A
Calming Thought of All, The
Camps of Green
Carol Closing Sixty-nine, A
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Centenarian’s Story, The
Centre of equal daughters, equal sons
Chanting the Square Deific
Chanting the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides
Chants Democratic.
CHILDREN OF ADAM
Child’s Amaze, A
Christmas Greeting, A
City Dead-House, The
City of Orgies
City of orgies, walks and joys
City of Ships
Clear Midnight, A
Clear the way there Jonathan!
Columbian’s Song, The
Come closer to me
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble
Come my tan-faced children
Come said the Muse
Come Up from the Fields Father
Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete
Commonplace, The
Continuities
Courage yet, my brother or my sister!
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
D
Dalliance of the Eagles, The
Darest Thou Now O Soul
Dead Emperor, The
Dead Tenor, The
Death and Burial of McDonald Clarke, The
Death of General Grant
Death of the Nature-Lover
Death’s Valley
Debris
Delicate Cluster
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!
Despairing Cries
Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night
Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books
Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
Dirge for Two Veterans
Dismantled Ship, The
Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a newcomer chatting:
DRUM-TAPS
Dying Veteran, The
E
Earth, My Likeness
Eidólons
Eighteen Sixty-One
Election Day, November 1884
End of All, The
Ended Day, An
Enfans d‘Adam.
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
[Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States
Evening Lull, An
Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man;
Excelsior
F
[Faces]
Faces
Facing West from California’s Shores
Fame’s Vanity
Fancies at Navesink
Far back, related on my mother’s side
Far hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty
Farm Picture, A
Fast-anchor’d Eternal O Love!
Fast-anchor’d eternal O love! 0 woman I love!
Few Drops Known, The
FIRST ANNEX: SANDS AT SEVENTY
First Dandelion, The
First 0 Songs for a Prelude
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Font of Type, A
For Him I Sing
For his o‘erarching and last lesson the graybeard sufi
For Queen Victoria’s Birthday
For the lands and for these passionate days and for myself
For Us Two, Reader Dear
For You O Democracy
Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts
France, The 18th Year of these States
From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you
From east to west across the horizon’s edge
From Far Dakota’s Cañons
From Montauk Point
From My Last Years
From my last years, last thoughts I here bequeath
FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
From Paumanok Starting I Fly like a Bird
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
Full of Life Now
Full of l
ife now, compact, visible
Full of wickedness, I—of many a smutch’d deed reminiscent—of worse deeds capable
G
Germs
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling
Give me your hand old Revolutionary
Gliding o‘er All
Gliding o‘er all, through all
Glimpse, A
Gods
Good-Bye My Fancy
Good-Bye my Fancy!
Good-bye my fancy—(I had a word to say
Grand Is the Seen
Grand is the seen, the light, to me-grand are the sky and stars
[Great Are the Myths]
Great are the myths ... I too delight in them
Great Are the Myths
Great are the myths-I too delight in them;
Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses
H
Had I the choice to tally greatest bards
Had I the Choice
Halcyon Days
Hand-Mirror, A
Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
Have I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
Have you learn’d lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you‘
He is wisest who has the most caution
Heave the anchor short!
Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
Here, take this gift
Hold it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?)
Hours continuing long, sore, and heavy-hearted
House of Friends, The
How dare one say it?
How Solemn as One by One
How solemn! sweeping this dense black tide!
How sweet the silent backward tracings
How they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)
Hush’d Be the Camps To-day
I
I am he that aches with amorous love;
I Am He That Aches with Love
I celebrate myself
I celebrate myself, and sing myself
I doubt it not—then more, far more;
I Dream’d in a Dream
I dream’d in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth
I have not so much emulated the birds that musically sing
I Hear America Singing
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear
I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions
