Leaves of Grass
Publication year deliberately null. Leaves of Grass went through six lifetime editions between 1855 and 1892 and one year cannot stand for the book. What IS established, 2026-08-12: the text on disk is the 1891-92 arrangement or a later reprint of it, because it contains both annexes — poems extracted from sands-at-seventy.xhtml and goodbye-my-fancy.xhtml — and those were first gathered into Leaves of Grass in 1891-92. It is therefore not the 1855, 1856, 1860-61, 1867, 1871 or 1881-82 book. Which printing of the 1891-92 setting it follows is still unknown. The Standard Ebooks content.opf was read: its dc:source lines are Gutenberg 1322 and leavesgrass03whitgoog, the 1897 reprint named in the correction below. The long description claims the 1892 deathbed edition as the basis. Those two claims disagree. CORRECTION, same date: the scan named as this book's witness, leavesgrass03whitgoog, is NOT the 1891-92 edition. Its title page reads 'Boston / SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY / 1897' over a copyright list ending 1891. It had been described in this project's working notes as 'the 1891-92 Whitman scan', and every collation worksheet for this poet was built against it, as was the corpus's one recorded correction (fancies-at-navesink). The 1897 Small, Maynard printing is a reprint of the 1891-92 setting, so it is a reasonable witness — but it is a different book from the one the corpus said it was, and no worksheet built on it can be cited as evidence about the 1891-92 printing itself.
Numbers are the poem's position in the book.
- 1One’s-Self I Sing Inscriptions 1871
- 2As I Ponder’d in Silence Inscriptions 1871
- 3In Cabin’d Ships at Sea Inscriptions 1871
- 4To Foreign Lands Inscriptions 1871
- 5To a Historian Inscriptions 1860
- 6To Thee Old Cause Inscriptions 1871
- 7Eidólons Inscriptions 1876
- 8For Him I Sing Inscriptions 1871
- 9When I Read the Book Inscriptions 1867
- 10Beginning My Studies Inscriptions 1865
- 11Beginners Inscriptions 1860
- 12To the States Inscriptions 1860
- 13On Journeys Through the States Inscriptions 1860
- 14To a Certain Cantatrice Inscriptions 1860
- 15Me Imperturbe Inscriptions 1860
- 16Savantism Inscriptions 1860
- 17The Ship Starting Inscriptions 1865
- 18I Hear America Singing Inscriptions 1860
- 19What Place Is Besieged? Inscriptions 1860
- 20Still Though the One I Sing Inscriptions 1871
- 21Shut Not Your Doors Inscriptions 1865
- 22Poets to Come Inscriptions 1860
- 23To You Inscriptions 1860
- 24Thou Reader Inscriptions 1881
- 25Starting from Paumanok 1860
- 26Song of Myself 1855
- 27To the Garden the World Children of Adam 1860
- 28From Pent-Up Aching Rivers Children of Adam 1860
- 29I Sing the Body Electric Children of Adam 1855
- 30A Woman Waits for Me Children of Adam 1856
- 31Spontaneous Me Children of Adam 1856
- 32One Hour to Madness and Joy Children of Adam 1860
- 33Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Children of Adam 1865
- 34Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals Children of Adam 1860
- 35We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d Children of Adam 1860
- 36O Hymen! O Hymenee! Children of Adam 1860
- 37I Am He That Aches with Love Children of Adam 1860
- 38Native Moments Children of Adam 1860
- 39Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City Children of Adam 1860
- 40I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ Children of Adam 1867
- 41Facing West from California’s Shores Children of Adam 1860
- 42As Adam Early in the Morning Children of Adam 1860
- 43In Paths Untrodden Calamus 1860
- 44Scented Herbage of My Breast Calamus 1860
- 45Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Calamus 1860
- 46For You O Democracy Calamus 1860
- 47These I Singing in Spring Calamus 1860
- 48Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only Calamus 1860
- 49Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances Calamus 1860
- 50The Base of All Metaphysics Calamus 1871
- 51Recorders Ages Hence Calamus 1860
- 52When I Heard at the Close of the Day Calamus 1860
- 53Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? Calamus 1860
- 54Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone Calamus 1860
- 55Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes Calamus 1860
- 56Trickle Drops Calamus 1860
- 57City of Orgies Calamus 1860
- 58Behold This Swarthy Face Calamus 1860
- 59I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Calamus 1860
- 60To a Stranger Calamus 1860
- 61This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful Calamus 1860
- 62I Hear It Was Charged Against Me Calamus 1860
- 63The Prairie-Grass Dividing Calamus 1860
- 64When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame Calamus 1860
- 65We Two Boys Together Clinging Calamus 1860
- 66A Promise to California Calamus 1860
- 67Here the Frailest Leaves of Me Calamus 1860
- 68No Labor-Saving Machine Calamus 1860
- 69A Glimpse Calamus 1860
- 70A Leaf for Hand in Hand Calamus 1860
- 71Earth, My Likeness Calamus 1860
- 72I Dream’d in a Dream Calamus 1860
- 73What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? Calamus 1860
- 74To the East and to the West Calamus 1860
- 75Sometimes with One I Love Calamus 1860
- 76To a Western Boy Calamus 1860
- 77Fast-Anchor’d Eternal O Love! Calamus 1860
- 78Among the Multitude Calamus 1860
- 79O You Whom I Often and Silently Come Calamus 1860
- 80That Shadow My Likeness Calamus 1860
- 81Full of Life Now Calamus 1860
- 82Salut au Monde! 1856
- 83Song of the Open Road 1856
- 84Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1856
- 85Song of the Answerer 1855
- 86Our Old Feuillage 1860
- 87A Song of Joys 1860
- 88Song of the Broad-Axe 1856
- 89Song of the Exposition 1876
- 90Song of the Redwood-Tree 1876
- 91A Song for Occupations 1855
- 92A Song of the Rolling Earth A Song of the Rolling Earth 1856
- 93Youth, Day, Old Age and Night A Song of the Rolling Earth 1856
- 94Song of the Universal Birds of Passage 1876
- 95Pioneers! O Pioneers! Birds of Passage 1865
- 96To You Birds of Passage 1856
- 97France Birds of Passage 1860
- 98Myself and Mine Birds of Passage 1860
- 99Year of Meteors Birds of Passage 1865
- 100With Antecedents Birds of Passage 1860
- 101A Broadway Pageant 1865
- 102Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Sea-Drift 1859
- 103As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life Sea-Drift 1860
- 104Tears Sea-Drift 1867
- 105To the Man-of-War-Bird Sea-Drift 1881
- 106Aboard at a Ship’s Helm Sea-Drift 1867
- 107On the Beach at Night Sea-Drift 1871
- 108The World Below the Brine Sea-Drift 1860
- 109On the Beach at Night Alone Sea-Drift 1856
- 110Song for All Seas, All Ships Sea-Drift 1876
- 111Patroling Barnegat Sea-Drift 1881
- 112After the Sea-Ship Sea-Drift 1876
- 113A Boston Ballad By the Roadside 1855
- 114Europe By the Roadside 1855
- 115A Hand-Mirror By the Roadside 1860
- 116Gods By the Roadside 1871
- 117Germs By the Roadside 1860
- 118Thoughts By the Roadside 1860
- 119When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By the Roadside 1865
- 120Perfections By the Roadside 1860
- 121O Me! O Life! By the Roadside 1867
- 122To a President By the Roadside 1860
- 123I Sit and Look Out By the Roadside 1860
- 124To Rich Givers By the Roadside 1860
- 125The Dalliance of the Eagles By the Roadside 1881
- 126Roaming in Thought By the Roadside 1881
- 127A Farm Picture By the Roadside 1865
- 128A Child’s Amaze By the Roadside 1865?
- 129The Runner By the Roadside 1867
- 130Beautiful Women By the Roadside 1860
- 131Mother and Babe By the Roadside 1865
- 132Thought By the Roadside 1860
- 133Visor’d By the Roadside 1860
- 134Thought By the Roadside 1860
- 135Gliding O’er All By the Roadside 1871
- 136Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour By the Roadside 1881
- 137Thought By the Roadside 1860
- 138To Old Age By the Roadside 1860
- 139Locations and Times By the Roadside 1860
- 140Offerings By the Roadside 1860
- 141To the States By the Roadside 1860
- 142First O Songs for a Prelude Drum-Taps 1865
- 143Eighteen Sixty-One Drum-Taps 1865
- 144Beat! Beat! Drums! Drum-Taps 1865
- 145From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird Drum-Taps 1865
- 146Song of the Banner at Daybreak Drum-Taps 1865
- 147Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps Drum-Taps 1865
- 148Virginia—The West Drum-Taps 1876
- 149City of Ships Drum-Taps 1865
- 150The Centenarian’s Story Drum-Taps 1865
- 151Cavalry Crossing a Ford Drum-Taps 1865
- 152Bivouac on a Mountain Side Drum-Taps 1865
- 153An Army Corps on the March Drum-Taps 1867
- 154By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Drum-Taps 1865
- 155Come Up from the Fields Father Drum-Taps 1865
- 156Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Drum-Taps 1865
- 157A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown Drum-Taps 1865
- 158A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim Drum-Taps 1865
- 159As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods Drum-Taps 1865
- 160Not the Pilot Drum-Taps 1860
- 161Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me Drum-Taps 1865
- 162The Wound-Dresser Drum-Taps 1865
- 163Long, Too Long America Drum-Taps 1865
- 164Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun Drum-Taps 1865
- 165Dirge for Two Veterans Drum-Taps 1867
- 166Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice Drum-Taps 1865
- 167I Saw Old General at Bay Drum-Taps 1865
- 168The Artilleryman’s Vision Drum-Taps 1865
- 169Ethiopia Saluting the Colors Drum-Taps 1871
- 170Not Youth Pertains to Me Drum-Taps 1865
- 171Race of Veterans Drum-Taps 1867
- 172World Take Good Notice Drum-Taps 1865
- 173O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy Drum-Taps 1865
- 174Look Down Fair Moon Drum-Taps 1865
- 175Reconciliation Drum-Taps 1867
- 176How Solemn as One by One Drum-Taps 1867
- 177As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado Drum-Taps 1867
- 178Delicate Cluster Drum-Taps 1871
- 179To a Certain Civilian Drum-Taps 1865
- 180Lo, Victress on the Peaks Drum-Taps 1867
- 181Spirit Whose Work Is Done Drum-Taps 1867
- 182Adieu to a Soldier Drum-Taps 1871
- 183Turn O Libertad Drum-Taps 1865
- 184To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod Drum-Taps 1867
- 185When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Memories of President Lincoln 1865
- 186O Captain! My Captain! Memories of President Lincoln 1865
- 187Hush’d Be the Camps To-day Memories of President Lincoln 1865
- 188This Dust Was Once the Man Memories of President Lincoln 1871
- 189By Blue Ontario’s Shore By Blue Ontario’s Shore 1856
- 190Reversals By Blue Ontario’s Shore 1856
- 191As Consequent, etc. Autumn Rivulets 1881
- 192The Return of the Heroes Autumn Rivulets 1871
- 193There Was a Child Went Forth Autumn Rivulets 1855
- 194Old Ireland Autumn Rivulets 1865
- 195The City Dead-House Autumn Rivulets 1867
- 196This Compost Autumn Rivulets 1856
- 197To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire Autumn Rivulets 1856
- 198Unnamed Lands Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 199Song of Prudence Autumn Rivulets 1856
- 200The Singer in the Prison Autumn Rivulets 1871
- 201Warble for Lilac-Time Autumn Rivulets 1871
- 202Outlines for a Tomb Autumn Rivulets 1871
- 203Out from Behind This Mask Autumn Rivulets 1876
- 204Vocalism Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 205To Him That Was Crucified Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 206You Felons on Trial in Courts Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 207Laws for Creations Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 208To a Common Prostitute Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 209I Was Looking a Long While Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 210Thought Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 211Miracles Autumn Rivulets 1856
- 212Sparkles from the Wheel Autumn Rivulets 1871
- 213To a Pupil Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 214Unfolded Out of the Folds Autumn Rivulets 1856
- 215What Am I After All Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 216Kosmos Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 217Others May Praise What They Like Autumn Rivulets 1865
- 218Who Learns My Lesson Complete? Autumn Rivulets 1855
- 219Tests Autumn Rivulets 1860
- 220The Torch Autumn Rivulets 1865
- 221O Star of France Autumn Rivulets 1876
- 222The Ox-Tamer Autumn Rivulets 1876
- 223An Old Man’s Thought of School Autumn Rivulets 1876
- 224Wandering at Morn Autumn Rivulets 1876
- 225Italian Music in Dakota Autumn Rivulets 1881
- 226With All Thy Gifts Autumn Rivulets 1876
- 227My Picture-Gallery Autumn Rivulets 1881
- 228The Prairie States Autumn Rivulets 1881
- 229Proud Music of the Storm 1871
- 230Passage to India 1871
- 231Prayer of Columbus 1876
- 232The Sleepers The Sleepers 1855
- 233Transpositions The Sleepers 1856
- 234To Think of Time 1855
- 235Darest Thou Now O Soul Whispers of Heavenly Death 1871
- 236Whispers of Heavenly Death Whispers of Heavenly Death 1871
- 237Chanting the Square Deific Whispers of Heavenly Death 1867
- 238Of Him I Love Day and Night Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 239Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 240As if a Phantom Caress’d Me Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 241Assurances Whispers of Heavenly Death 1856
- 242Quicksand Years Whispers of Heavenly Death 1865
- 243That Music Always Round Me Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 244What Ship Puzzled at Sea Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 245A Noiseless Patient Spider Whispers of Heavenly Death 1871
- 246O Living Always, Always Dying Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 247To One Shortly to Die Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 248Night on the Prairies Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 249Thought Whispers of Heavenly Death 1860
- 250The Last Invocation Whispers of Heavenly Death 1871
- 251As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing Whispers of Heavenly Death 1871
- 252Pensive and Faltering Whispers of Heavenly Death 1871
- 253Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 1876
- 254A Paumanok Picture Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 1856?
- 255Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling From Noon to Starry Night 1881
- 256Faces From Noon to Starry Night 1855
- 257The Mystic Trumpeter From Noon to Starry Night 1876
- 258To a Locomotive in Winter From Noon to Starry Night 1876
- 259O Magnet-South From Noon to Starry Night 1860
- 260Mannahatta From Noon to Starry Night 1860
- 261All Is Truth From Noon to Starry Night 1860
- 262A Riddle Song From Noon to Starry Night 1881
- 263Excelsior From Noon to Starry Night 1856
- 264Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats From Noon to Starry Night 1867
- 265Thoughts From Noon to Starry Night 1860
- 266Mediums From Noon to Starry Night 1860
- 267Weave In, My Hardy Life From Noon to Starry Night 1865
- 268Spain, 1873–74 From Noon to Starry Night 1876
- 269By Broad Potomac’s Shore From Noon to Starry Night 1876
- 270From Far Dakota’s Canyons From Noon to Starry Night 1881
- 271Old War-Dreams From Noon to Starry Night 1867
- 272Thick-Sprinkled Bunting From Noon to Starry Night 1865
- 273What Best I See in Thee From Noon to Starry Night 1881
- 274Spirit That Form’d This Scene From Noon to Starry Night 1881
- 275As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days From Noon to Starry Night 1860
- 276A Clear Midnight From Noon to Starry Night 1881
- 277As the Time Draws Nigh Songs of Parting 1860
- 278Years of the Modern Songs of Parting 1865
- 279Ashes of Soldiers Songs of Parting 1865
- 280Thoughts Songs of Parting 1860
- 281Song at Sunset Songs of Parting 1860
- 282As at Thy Portals Also Death Songs of Parting 1881
- 283My Legacy Songs of Parting 1876
- 284Pensive on Her Dead Gazing Songs of Parting 1865
- 285Camps of Green Songs of Parting 1865
- 286The Sobbing of the Bells Songs of Parting 1881
- 287As They Draw to a Close Songs of Parting 1871
- 288Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Songs of Parting 1871
- 289The Untold Want Songs of Parting 1871
- 290Portals Songs of Parting 1871
- 291These Carols Songs of Parting 1871
- 292Now Finalè to the Shore Songs of Parting 1871
- 293So Long! Songs of Parting 1860
- 294Mannahatta Sands at Seventy 1888
- 295Paumanok Sands at Seventy 1888
- 296From Montauk Point Sands at Seventy 1888
- 297To Those Who’ve Fail’d Sands at Seventy 1888
- 298A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine Sands at Seventy 1888
- 299The Bravest Soldiers Sands at Seventy 1888
- 300A Font of Type Sands at Seventy 1888
- 301As I Sit Writing Here Sands at Seventy 1888
- 302My Canary Bird Sands at Seventy 1888
- 303Queries to My Seventieth Year Sands at Seventy 1888
- 304The Wallabout Martyrs Sands at Seventy 1888
- 305The First Dandelion Sands at Seventy 1888
- 306America Sands at Seventy 1888
- 307Memories Sands at Seventy 1888
- 308To-day and Thee Sands at Seventy 1888
- 309After the Dazzle of Day Sands at Seventy 1888
- 310Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 Sands at Seventy 1888
- 311Out of May’s Shows Selected Sands at Seventy 1888
- 312Halcyon Days Sands at Seventy 1888
- 313Fancies at Navesink Sands at Seventy 1888
- 314Election Day, November, 1884 Sands at Seventy 1888
- 315With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! Sands at Seventy 1888
- 316Death of General Grant Sands at Seventy 1888
- 317Red Jacket (from Aloft) Sands at Seventy 1888
- 318Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 Sands at Seventy 1888
- 319Of That Blithe Throat of Thine Sands at Seventy 1888
- 320Broadway Sands at Seventy 1888
- 321To Get the Final Lilt of Songs Sands at Seventy 1888
- 322Old Salt Kossabone Sands at Seventy 1888
- 323The Dead Tenor Sands at Seventy 1888
- 324Continuities Sands at Seventy 1888
- 325Yonnondio Sands at Seventy 1888
- 326Life Sands at Seventy 1888
- 327“Going Somewhere” Sands at Seventy 1888
- 328Small the Theme of My Chant Sands at Seventy 1888
- 329True Conquerors Sands at Seventy 1888
- 330The United States to Old World Critics Sands at Seventy 1888
- 331The Calming Thought of All Sands at Seventy 1888
- 332Thanks in Old Age Sands at Seventy 1888
- 333Life and Death Sands at Seventy 1888
- 334The Voice of the Rain Sands at Seventy 1888
- 335Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here Sands at Seventy 1888
- 336While Not the Past Forgetting Sands at Seventy 1888
- 337The Dying Veteran Sands at Seventy 1888
- 338Stronger Lessons Sands at Seventy 1888
- 339A Prairie Sunset Sands at Seventy 1888
- 340Twenty Years Sands at Seventy 1888
- 341Orange Buds by Mail from Florida Sands at Seventy 1888
- 342Twilight Sands at Seventy 1888
- 343You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me Sands at Seventy 1888
- 344Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone Sands at Seventy 1888
- 345The Dead Emperor Sands at Seventy 1888
- 346As the Greek’s Signal Flame Sands at Seventy 1888
- 347The Dismantled Ship Sands at Seventy 1888
- 348Now Precedent Songs, Farewell Sands at Seventy 1888
- 349An Evening Lull Sands at Seventy 1888
- 350Old Age’s Lambent Peaks Sands at Seventy 1891
- 351After the Supper and Talk Sands at Seventy 1888
- 352Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 353Lingering Last Drops Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 354Good-Bye My Fancy Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 355On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 356My 71st Year Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 357Apparitions Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 358The Pallid Wreath Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 359An Ended Day Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 360Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 361To the Pending Year Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 362Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 363Long, Long Hence Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 364Bravo, Paris Exposition! Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 365Interpolation Sounds Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 366To the Sun-Set Breeze Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 367Old Chants Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 368A Christmas Greeting Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 369Sounds of the Winter Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 370A Twilight Song Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 371When the Full-Grown Poet Came Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 372Osceola Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 373A Voice from Death Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 374A Persian Lesson Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 375The Commonplace Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 376“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete” Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 377Mirages Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 378L. of G.’s Purport Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 379The Unexpress’d Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 380Grand Is the Seen Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 381Unseen Buds Goodbye My Fancy 1891
- 382Goodbye My Fancy! Goodbye My Fancy 1891