Introduction SELECTED POETRY From 1855 Leaves of Grass [Preface] [Song of Myself] From 1881 Leaves of Grass from Inscriptions One's Self I Sing from Children of Adam I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City from Calamus 8 [Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me] 9 [Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted] Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand For You O Democracy Recorders Ages Hence When I Heard at the Close of the Day Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes City of Orgies I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing To a Stranger This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame Here the Frailest Leaves of Me A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth, My Likeness I Dream'd in a Dream What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? To a Western Boy O You Whom I Often and Silently Come Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Song of the Redwood-Tree from Sea-Drift Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life The World Below the Brine from By the Roadside When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer I Sit and Look Out The Dalliance of the Eagles A Farm Picture The Runner from Drum-Taps Beat! Beat! Drums! Cavalry Crossing a Ford Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night The Wound-Dresser Long, Too Long America Reconciliation As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim from Memories of President Lincoln When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd O Captain! My Captain! This Dust Was Once the Man Hush'd Be the Camps To-day from Autumn Rivulets This Compost The Sleepers Live Oak, With Moss SELECTED PROSE Dumb Kate--An Early Death Brooklyn Daily Eagleeditorials "Shall We Fight It Out? (11 May 1846) from "Our Territory on the Pacific (7 July 1846) from Democratic Vistas from Specimen Days Two Brooklyn Boys The Wounded from Chancellorsville Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier The Real War Will Never Get In the Books from November Boughs Negro Slaves in New York Paying the 1st USCT New Orleans in 1848 IN CONTEXT 1855 Leaves of Grass[Song of Myself] Whitman's Correspondence with Emerson Nineteenth-Century Reviews of Leaves of Grass The Design of Leaves of Grass, 1855-60 Portraits of Whitman INDEX OF TITLES.