Leaves of Grass : The First (1855) Edition

"Leaves of Grass," first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading ["Leaves of Grass"], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."

Editor's Introduction

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LEAVES OF GRASS

Facsimile Frontispiece

2

(1)

Facsimile Title Page

3

(2)

Whitman's Introduction

5

(20)

Song of Myself1

25

(62)

A Song for Occupations

87

(11)

To Think of Time

98

(7)

The Sleepers

105

(11)

I Sing the Body Electric

116

(8)

Faces

124

(5)

Song of the Answerer

129

(4)

Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States

133

(2)

A Boston Ballad

135

(3)

There Was a Child Went Forth

138

(2)

Who Learns My Lesson Complete

140

(2)

Great Are the Myths

142

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Leaves of Grass : The First (1855) Edition

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