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BEHAVIOR--fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself,Nature and the Soul expressed--America and freedom expressed--In itthe finest..

City of ships!(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!O the beautiful sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!)City of the world! (for all races are..

O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may bewith you;As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room..

A LEAF for hand in hand!You natural persons old and young!You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of theMississippi!You friendly..

AS I lay with my head in your lap, Camerado,The confession I made I resume--what I said to you in the open air Iresume:I know I am restless, and make..

IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish,Of the look at first of the mortally wounded--of that indescribablelook;Of the dead on their backs, with..

ABOARD, at a ship's helm,A young steersman, steering with care.A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell--O a warning bell..

OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come,Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed..

ADIEU, O soldier!You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)The rapid march, the life of the camp,The hot contention of opposing fronts- the long..

AFTER the Sea-Ship--after the whistling winds;After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening..

from Memories of President Lincoln1When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,I..

AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore,As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, and the deadthat return no more,A Phantom, gigantic..

ARE you the new person drawn toward me?To begin with, take warning--I am surely far different from what yousuppose;Do you suppose you will find in me..

AGES and ages, returning at intervals,Undestroy'd, wandering immortal,Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,I, chanter of..

I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon alloppression and shame;I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish..

WHY! who makes much of a miracle?As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,Or dart my sight over the..

A SONG of the good green grass!A song no more of the city streets;A song of farms--a song of the soil of fields.A song with the smell of sun-dried..

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add..

TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,Ten fishermen waiting- they discover a thick school of mossbonkers-they drop the join'd..

TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here's a good place at the corner--I must stand and see the show.Clear the way there..

A PROMISE to California,Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain,to..

A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I walk in the cool fresh air, the path near by the..

PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me,as of a dream,)I..

Women sit, or move to and fro- some old,some young;The young are beautiful- but the old are more beautiful than theyoung.

A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown;A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the darkness;Our army foil'd with loss..