To the garden the world anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and bein...

1 I wander all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with open ey...

1 Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading whe...

1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you...

1 O take my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to t...

Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? ...

1 Singing my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong light works of engineers, Our modern wond...

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...

On, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, i...

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is ne...

Myself and mine gymnastic ever, To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget...

I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name. Now I see what there is...

1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with th...

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carp...

I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream'd that was the ...

Not from successful love alone, Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war; But as life wanes, and a...

Good-bye my Fancy! Farewell dear mate, dear love! I'm going away, I know not where, Or to what fortune, or whether I may eve...

1 Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west--sun there half an hour high--I see you also face to face. ...

Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy d...

As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me with distrustful asp...