Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman AN ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of The Electronic Classics Series. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, The Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Editor, PSU-Hazleton, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Jim Manis is a faculty member of the English Depart- ment of The Pennsylvania State University. This page and any preceding page(s) are restricted by copyright. The text of the following pages are not copyrighted within the United States; however, the fonts used may be. Cover Design: Jim Manis; image: Walt Whitman, age 37, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost da- guerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. Copyright © 2007 - 2013 The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Walt Whitman Contents LEAVES OF GRASS ............................................................... 13 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................................................... 14 One’s-Self I Sing .......................................................................................... 14 As I Ponder’d in Silence................................................................................ 15 In Cabin’d Ships at Sea................................................................................. 16 To Foreign Lands ......................................................................................... 17 To a Historian .............................................................................................. 18 To Thee Old Cause ...................................................................................... 19 Eidolons....................................................................................................... 20 For Him I Sing ............................................................................................ 23 When I Read the Book ................................................................................ 24 Beginning My Studies .................................................................................. 25 Beginners ..................................................................................................... 26 To the States ................................................................................................ 27 On Journeys Through the States .................................................................. 28 To a Certain Cantatrice ................................................................................ 29 Me Imperturbe ............................................................................................ 30 Savantism .................................................................................................... 31 The Ship Starting ......................................................................................... 32 I Hear America Singing................................................................................ 33 What Place Is Besieged? ............................................................................... 34 Still Though the One I Sing ......................................................................... 35 Shut Not Your Doors ................................................................................... 36 Poets to Come .............................................................................................. 37 To You ......................................................................................................... 38 Thou Reader ................................................................................................ 38 BOOK II Starting from Paumanok.......................................... 39 BOOK III Song of Myself ....................................................... 52 BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM .................................... 106 To the Garden the World ........................................................................... 106 From Pent-Up Aching Rivers ..................................................................... 107 I Sing the Body Electric ............................................................................. 109 A Woman Waits for Me ............................................................................. 117 Spontaneous Me ........................................................................................ 119 One Hour to Madness and Joy .................................................................. 121 Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd ......................................................... 122 Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals ......................................................... 123 We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d ......................................................... 124 O Hymen! O Hymenee!............................................................................. 125 I Am He That Aches with Love .................................................................. 126 3 Leaves of Grass Native Moments ........................................................................................ 127 Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City ..................................................... 128 I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ........................................... 129 Facing West from California’s Shores .......................................................... 130 As Adam Early in the Morning .................................................................. 131 BOOK V. CALAMUS ........................................................... 132 In Paths Untrodden ................................................................................... 132 Scented Herbage of My Breast ................................................................... 133 Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand ............................................ 135 For You, O Democracy .............................................................................. 137 These I Singing in Spring ........................................................................... 138 Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only ................................................. 139 Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances........................................................ 140 The Base of All Metaphysics ...................................................................... 141 Recorders Ages Hence ................................................................................ 142 When I Heard at the Close of the Day ....................................................... 143 Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? ............................................. 144 Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone ........................................................... 145 Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes .......................................................... 146 Trickle Drops ............................................................................................. 147 City of Orgies ............................................................................................ 148 Behold This Swarthy Face .......................................................................... 149 I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing ..................................................... 150 To a Stranger.............................................................................................. 151 This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful ..................................................... 152 I Hear It Was Charged Against Me ............................................................ 153 The Prairie-Grass Dividing ........................................................................ 154 When I Persue the Conquer’d Fame ........................................................... 155 We Two Boys Together Clinging ................................................................ 156 A Promise to California.............................................................................. 157 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me ................................................................... 158 No Labor-Saving Machine ......................................................................... 159 A Glimpse .................................................................................................. 160 A Leaf for Hand in Hand........................................................................... 161 Earth, My Likeness .................................................................................... 162 I Dream’d in a Dream ................................................................................ 163 What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? ................................................. 164 To the East and to the West ....................................................................... 165 Sometimes with One I Love ....................................................................... 166 To a Western Boy ......................................................................................

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