Walt Whitman Selected Poems 1855-1892

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Presents over 200 of the fearless and explicit poems that Whitman wrote during the creative and sexual prime of his life, before he became America's "respectable, grandfatherly Good Gray Poet" through 30 years of revision and self-censorship. 2 illustrations. 7 photos.

Introduction

Leaves of Grass 1855

Whitman's Preface

(12)

The Twelve Poems of the 1855 Edition:

``I celebrate myself...''

(51)

``Come closer to me...''

(9)

``To think of time...''

(6)

``I wander all night in my vision...''

(8)

``The bodies of men and women engirth me...''

(6)

``Sauntering the pavement...''

(3)

``A young man came to me...''

(3)

``Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair...''

101

(2)

``Clear the way there Jonathan!...''

103

(2)

``There was a child went forth...''

105

(2)

``Who learns my lesson complete?...''

107

(1)

``Great are the myths...''

108

(4)

Whitman's Unsigned Review, Brooklyn Daily Times (1855)

112

(2)

Whitman's Unsigned Review, U.S. Review (1855)

114

(7)

Leaves of Grass 1856

Poem of Salutation

121

(9)

Poem of Wonder at The Resurrection of The Wheat

130

(2)

Poem of You, Whoever You Are

132

(2)

Sun-Down Poem

134

(6)

Poem of The Road

140

(9)

Poem of Procreation

149

(2)

Clef Poem

151

(1)

Poem of The Heart of The Son of Manhattan Island

152

(1)

Faith Poem

153

(1)

Poem of Perfect Miracles

154

(1)

Bunch Poem

155

(2)

Poem of The Propositions of Nakedness

157

(3)

Poem of The Sayers of The Worlds of The Earth

160

(6)

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Congratulatory Letter

166

(1)

Whitman's Reply to Emerson

166

(6)

The Emerson-Whitman Exchange: A Conversational Postscript (1889)

172

(5)

Leaves of Grass 1860

Proto-Leaf

177

(11)

From the Chants Democratic Cluster:

``Splendor of falling day...''

188

(2)

``Historian ! you who celebrate bygones!...''

190

(1)

``To oratists--to male or female...''

191

(1)

``Poets to come!...''

192

(1)

``Me imperturbe...''

193

(1)

``I was looking a long while...''

194

(1)

``American mouth-songs!...''

194

(1)

From the Leaves of Grass Cluster:

``Elemental drifts!...''

195

(3)

``O bitter sprig!...''

198

(1)

``I sit and look out...''

199

(1)

``Now I make a leaf of Voices...''

200

(1)

``What am I, after all, but a child...''

200

(1)

``Lift me close to your face till I whisper...''

201

(1)

Poem of Joys

201

(7)

A Word Out of the Sea

208

(6)

From the Enfans D'Adam Cluster:

``To the garden, the world...''

214

(1)

``From that of myself...''

215

(2)

``O furious! O confine me not!...''

217

(1)

``You and I--what the earth is, we are...''

218

(1)

``Native moments! when you come upon me...''

219

(1)

``Once I passed through a populous city...''

220

(1)

``Inquiring, tireless, seeking that yet unfound...''

220

(1)

``In the new garden, in all the parts...''

221

(1)

``Ages and ages, returning at intervals...''

221

(1)

``O hymen! O hymenee!...''

222

(1)

``I am he that aches with love...''

222

(1)

``Early in the morning...''

222

(1)

The Complete Calamus Cluster:

``In paths untrodden...''

223

(1)

``Scented herbage of my breast...''

223

(2)

``Whoever you are holding me now in hand...''

225

(2)

``These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers...''

227

(1)

``States!...''

228

(2)

``Not heaving from my ribbed breast only...''

230

(1)

``Of the terrible question of appearances...''

230

(1)

``Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me...''

231

(1)

``Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted...''

232

(1)

``You bards of ages hence!...''

233

(1)

``When I heard at the close of the day...''

234

(1)

``Are you the new person drawn toward me...''

235

(1)

``Calamus taste...''

235

(1)

``Not heat flames up and consumes...''

236

(1)

``O drops of me! trickle, slow drops...''

237

(1)

``Who is now reading this?...''

237

(1)

``Of him I love day and night...''

238

(1)

``City of my walks and joys!...''

239

(1)

``Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority?...''

239

(1)

``I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing...''

240

(1)

``Music always round me...''

241

(1)

``Passing stranger!...''

241

(1)

``This moment as I sit alone...''

242

(1)

``I hear it is charged against me...''

242

(1)

``The prairie-grass dividing...''

243

(1)

``We two boys together clinging...''

243

(1)

``O love!...''

244

(1)

``When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes...''

244

(1)

``One flitting glimpse, caught through an interstice...''

245

(1)

``A promise and gift to California...''

245

(1)

``What ship, puzzled at sea...''

246

(1)

``What think you I take my pen in hand to record...''

246

(1)

``No labor-saving machine...''

247

(1)

``I dreamed in a dream...''

247

(1)

``To you of New England...''

248

(1)

``Earth! my likeness!...''

248

(1)

``A leaf for hand in hand!...''

249

(1)

``Primeval my love for the woman I love...''

249

(1)

``Sometimes with one I love...''

250

(1)

``That shadow, my likeness...''

250

(1)

``Among the men and women, the multitude...''

251

(1)

``To the young man, many things to absorb...''

251

(1)

``O you whom I often and silently come where you are...''

252

(1)

``Here my last words, and the most baffling...''

252

(1)

``Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visible...''

252

(1)

From the Messenger Leaves Cluster:

To Him That was Crucified

253

(1)

To One Shortly to Die

254

(1)

To a Common Prostitute

254

(1)

To a Pupil

255

(1)

To The States

256

(1)

To a Cantatrice

257

(1)

Walt Whitman's Caution

257

(1)

To a President

257

(1)

To You

258

(1)

To You

258

(1)

Mannahatta

258

(2)

From the Thoughts Cluster:

``Of persons arrived at high positions...''

260

(1)

A Hand-Mirror

260

(1)

Beginners

261

(1)

Tests

261

(1)

From the Debris Cluster:

``Have you learned lessons...''

262

(1)

``Despairing cries float ceaselessly...''

262

(1)

``I understand your anguish...''

262

(1)

Three old men slowly pass...''

262

(1)

``Women sit, or move to and fro...''

262

(1)

``I thought I was not alone...''

263

(1)

To My Soul

263

(1)

So long!

264

(3)

Unpublished Introduction (1861)

267

(4)

Drum-Taps 1865

Beginning My Studies

271

(1)

The Dresser

271

(2)

Come Up from the Fields Father

273

(2)

City of Ships

275

(1)

Mother and Babe

276

(1)

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

276

(1)

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown

277

(1)

A Farm Picture

278

(1)

Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

279

(1)

Did You Ask Dulcet Rhymes from Me?

280

(1)

Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me

281

(1)

The Veteran's Vision

281

(2)

O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy

283

(1)

As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods

283

(1)

Look Down Fair Moon

284

(1)

Hush'd Be the Camps To-day

284

(1)

Not Youth Pertains to Me

285

(1)

Unpublished Introduction (1864)

285

(2)

Unpublished Inscription To the Reader

287

(4)

Sequel to Drum-Taps 1865-66

When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd

291

(7)

O Captain! My Captain!

298

(1)

Chanting the Square Deific

299

(2)

Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me

301

(1)

Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats

301

(1)

As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap, Camerado

302

(1)

Dirge for Two Veterans

303

(1)

Reconciliation

304

(3)

Leaves of Grass 1867

Inscription

307

(1)

One's-Self I Sing

307

(1)

The Runner

308

(1)

Leaves of Grass 2 (``Tears! tears! tears!'')

308

(1)

When I Read the Book

309

(1)

Unpublished Introduction: London Edition (1868)

309

(6)

Leaves of Grass 1871-72

Passage to India

315

(8)

Proud Music of the Storm

323

(6)

This Dust was Once the Man

329

(1)

Whispers of Heavenly Death

329

(1)

A Noiseless, Patient Spider

330

(1)

Sparkles from the Wheel

330

(1)

Gods

331

(1)

The Untold Want

332

(1)

For Him I Sing

333

(1)

To Thee, Old Cause!

333

(1)

The Base of all Metaphysics

334

(3)

As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free 1872

Preface

337

(3)

One Song, America, Before I Go

340

(1)

Souvenirs of Democracy

340

(1)

As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free

341

(4)

The Mystic Trumpeter

345

(3)

By Broad Potomac's Shore

348

(5)

Two Rivulets 1876

Preface

353

(7)

Eidolons

360

(2)

Prayer of Columbus

362

(3)

To a Locomotive in Winter

365

(1)

Wandering at Morn

366

(1)

With All Thy Gifts

367

(1)

Unpublished Letter to the Foreign Reader (1876)

367

(4)

Leaves of Grass 1881

The Dalliance of the Eagles

371

(1)

Italian Music in Dakota

371

(1)

The Prairie States

372

(1)

A Riddle Song

372

(2)

Spirit That Form'd This Scene

374

(1)

A Clear Midnight

374

(3)

November Boughs 1888

Preface (``A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads'')

377

(9)

Mannahatta

386

(1)

A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine

387

(1)

A Font of Type

387

(1)

As I Sit Writing Here

388

(1)

Queries to My seventieth Year

388

(1)

America

388

(1)

After the Dazzle of Day

389

(1)

Halcyon Days

389

(1)

Of That Blithe Throat of Thine

390

(1)

Broadway

390

(1)

To Get the Final Lilt of Songs

391

(1)

The Dead Tenor

391

(1)

Yonnondio

392

(1)

Life and Death

392

(1)

A Prairie Sunset

393

(1)

Twilight

393

(1)

Now Precedent Songs, Farewell

394

(1)

After the Supper and Talk

395

(1)

Note at End: Complete Poems and Prose (1888)

396

(1)

Note Preceding: ``A Backward Glance'' (1889)

397

(4)

Leaves of Grass 1891-92

Author's Note to 1891-92 Edition

401

(1)

Preface Note to Good-Bye my Fancy

401

(1)

Good-Bye my Fancy

402

(1)

On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain!

403

(1)

The Pallid Wreath

404

(1)

To the Sun-Set Breeze

404

(1)

A Twilight Song

405

(1)

A Voice from Death

406

(1)

``The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete''

407

(1)

L. of G.'s Purport

408

(1)

Good-Bye my Fancy!

409

(1)

Article on Good-Bye my Fancy (1891)

410

(3)

APPENDICES

1. Poems Published Before Leaves or Posthumously

The Love That Is Hereafter (1840)

413

(1)

Each Has His Grief (1841)

414

(2)

A Sketch (1842)

416

(1)

The Mississippi at Midnight (1848)

417

(1)

Resurgemus (1850)

418

(2)

Supplement Hours (1897)

420

(1)

Of Many a Smutch'd Deed Reminiscent (1897)

421

(1)

A Thought of Columbus (1897)

421

(2)

2. Significant Passages from Whitman Manuscripts

423

(15)

3. Whitman's Observations on Leaves of Grass, 1888-92

438

(10)

4. Contemporary Reviews of Leaves of Grass

1855:

New York Daily Tribune, 23 July 1855

448

(1)

Charles Dana

Putnam's Monthly (New York), September 1855

449

(1)

Charles Eliot Norton

New York Criterion, 10 November 1855

449

(2)

Rufus W. Griswold

North American Review (Boston), January 1856

451

(1)

Edward Everett Hale

New York Daily News, 27 February 1856

452

(1)

London Critic, 1 April 1856

453

(1)

New York Ledger, 10 May 1856

454

(2)

Fanny Fern

New York Daily Times, 13 November 1856

456

(3)

William Swinton

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper (New York, 20 December 1856

459

(1)

1856:

Boston Christian Examiner, November 1856

459

(2)

Brooklyn Daily Times, 17 December 1856

461

(1)

1860:

New York Times, 19 May 1860

462

(1)

Boston Banner of Light, 2 June 1860

463

(2)

London Literary Gazette, 7 July 1860

465

(1)

London Spectator, 14 July 1860

466

(1)

Drum-Taps:

Round Table (New York), 11 November 1865

467

(2)

William Dean Howells

Nation (New York), 16 November 1865

469

(3)

Henry James

North American Review (Boston), January 1867

472

(1)

A. S. Hill

1871:

Westminster Review (London), July 1871

473

(2)

Edward Dowden

1881-82:

New York Critic, 5 November 1881

475

(2)

Nation (New York), 15 December 1881

477

(1)

T. W. Higginson

November Boughs:

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 30 October 1888

478

(1)

San Francisco Chronicle, 13 January 1889

478

(1)

Oscar Wilde, Pall Mall Gazette, 25 January 1889

479

(2)

Good-Bye my Fancy:

New York Tribune, 16 August 1891

481

(1)

Boston Literary World;, 12 September 1891

481

(2)

A Whitman Chronology

483

(2)

Notes on the Poems

485

(32)

A Select Whitman Bibliography

517

(4)

Index of Titles

521

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