The Ship Starting
Walt Whitman * Track #17 On Leaves of Grass
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Album Leaves of Grass
- #1One’s-Self I Sing
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- #2As I Ponder’d in Silence
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- #3In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
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- #4To Foreign Lands
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- #5To a Historian
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- #6To Thee Old Cause
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- #7Eidolons
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- #8For Him I Sing
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- #9When I Read the Book
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- #10Beginning My Studies
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- #11Beginners
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- #12To the States
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- #13On Journeys Through the States
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- #14To a Certain Cantatrice
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- #15Me Imperturbe
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- #16Savantism
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- #17The Ship Starting
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- #18What Place Is Besieged?
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- #19Still Though the One I Sing
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- #20Shut Not Your Doors
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- #21Poets to Come
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- #22Leaves of Grass (To You)
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- #23Thou Reader
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- #24Starting from Paumanok
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- #25Song of Myself
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- #26To the Garden the World
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- #27From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
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- #28One Hour to Madness and Joy
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- #29Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
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- #30Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
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- #31We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
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- #32O Hymen! O Hymenee!
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- #33I Am He That Aches with Love
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- #34Native Moments
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- #35Once I Pass’d Through a Populour City
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- #36I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
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- #37Facing West from California’s Shores
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- #38As Adam Early in the Morning
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- #39In Paths Untrodden
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- #40Scented Herbage of My Breast
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- #41These I Singing in Spring
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- #42Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
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- #43Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
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- #44The Base of All Metaphysics
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- #45Recorders Ages Hence
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- #46When I Heard at the Close of the Day
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- #47Are You the New person Drawn Toward Me?
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- #48Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
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- #49Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
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- #50Trickle Drops
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- #51City of Orgies
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- #52Behold This Swarthy Face
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- #53I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
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- #54To a Stranger
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- #55This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
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- #56I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
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- #57The Prairie-Grass Dividing
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- #58When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
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- #59We Two Boys Together Clinging
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- #60A Promise to California
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- #61Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
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- #62No Labor-Saving Machine
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- #63Earth, My Likeness
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- #64I Dream’d in a Dream
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- #65What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
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- #66To the East and to the West
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- #67To a Western Boy
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- #68Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
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- #69O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
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- #70That Shadow My Likeness
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- #71Full of Life Now
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- #72Salut au Monde!
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- #73Song of the Open Road
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- #74Leaves Of Grass (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
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- #75Song of the Answerer
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- #76Our Old Feuillage
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- #77A Song of Joys
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- #78Song of the Broad-Axe
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- #79Song of the Exposition
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- #80Song of the Redwood-Tree
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- #81A Song for Occupations
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- #82A Song of the Rolling Earth
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- #83Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
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- #84Song of the Universal
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- #85Leaves of Grass (Pioneers! O Pioneers! )
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- #86To You II
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- #87France [the 18th Year of these States]
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- #88Myself and Mine
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- #89Year of Meteors [1859-60]
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- #90With Antecedents
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- #91A Broadway Pageant
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- #92As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
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- #93Tears
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- #94To the Man-of-War-Bird
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- #95Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
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- #96On the Beach at Night
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- #97Song for All Seas, All Ships
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- #98Patroling Barnegat
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- #99After the Sea-Ship
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- #100Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
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- #101Gods
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- #102Germs
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- #103Thoughts
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- #104Perfections
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- #105To a President
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- #106I Sit and Look Out
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- #107To Rich Givers
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- #108The Dalliance of the Eagles
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- #109Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
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- #110The Runner
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- #111Beautiful Women
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- #112Mother and Babe
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- #113Thought
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- #114Visor’d
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- #115Thought-II
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- #116Gliding O’er all
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- #117Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
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- #118Thought-III
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- #119To Old Age
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- #120Locations and Times
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- #121Offerings
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- #122To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
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- #123First O Songs for a Prelude
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- #124Eighteen Sixty-One
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- #125Beat! Beat! Drums!
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- #126From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
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- #127Song of the Banner at Daybreak
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- #128Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
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- #129Virginia—The West
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- #130City of Ships
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- #131The Centenarian’s Story
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- #132Cavalry Crossing a Ford
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- #133Leaves of Grass (Bivouac on a Mountain Side )
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- #134An Army Corps on the March
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- #135By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
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- #136Leaves of Grass (Come Up from the Fields Father )
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- #137Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
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- #138A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
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- #139A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
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- #140As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
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- #141Not the Pilot
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- #142Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
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- #143The Wound-Dresser
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- #144Long, Too Long America
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- #145Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
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- #146Dirge for Two Veterans
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- #147Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
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- #148I Saw Old General at Bay
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- #149The Artilleryman’s Vision
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- #150Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
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- #151Not Youth Pertains to Me
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- #152Race of Veterans
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- #153World Take Good Notice
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- #154O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
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- #155Leaves of Grass (Look Down Fair Moon )
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- #156Reconciliation
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- #157How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
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- #158As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
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- #159Leaves of Grass (Delicate Cluster )
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- #160To a Certain Civilian
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- #161Lo, Victress on the Peaks
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- #162Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
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- #163Adieu to a Soldier
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- #164Turn O Libertad
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- #165To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
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- #166When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d
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- #167O Captain! My Captain!
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- #168Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865]
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- #169This Dust Was Once the Man
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- #170By Blue Ontario’s Shore
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- #171Reversals
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- #172As Consequent, Etc.
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- #173The Return of the Heroes
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- #174There Was a Child Went Forth
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- #175Old Ireland
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- #176The City Dead-House
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- #177This Compost
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- #178To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
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- #179Unnamed Land
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- #180Song of Prudence
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- #181The Singer in the Prison
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- #182Warble for Lilac-Time
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- #183Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
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- #184Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
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- #185Vocalism
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- #186To Him That Was Crucified
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- #187You Felons on Trial in Courts
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- #188Laws for Creations
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- #189To a Common Prostitute
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- #190I Was Looking a Long While
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- #191Thought2
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- #192Leaves of Grass (Miracles)
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- #193Sparkles from the Wheel
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- #194To a Pupil
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- #195What Am I After All
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- #196Kosmos
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- #197Others May Praise What They Like
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- #198Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
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- #199Tests
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- #200The Torch
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- #201O Star of France [1870-71]
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- #202The Ox-Tamer
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- #203Wandering at Morn
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- #204With All Thy Gifts
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- #205My Picture-Gallery
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- #206The Prairie States
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- #207Proud Music of the Storm
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- #208Prayer of Columbus
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- #209Transpositions
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- #210Darest Thou Now O Soul
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- #211Whispers of Heavenly Death
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- #212Chanting the Square Deific
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- #213Of Him I Love Day and Night
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- #214Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
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- #215As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
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- #216Assurances
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- #217Quicksand Years
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- #218That Music Always Round Me
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- #219What Ship Puzzled at Sea
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- #220O Living Always, Always Dying
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- #221To One Shortly to Die
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- #222Night on the Prairies
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- #223Thought-IV
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- #224The Last Invocation
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- #225As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
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- #226Pensive and Faltering
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- #227Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
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- #228A Paumanok Picture
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- #229Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
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- #230Faces
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- #231The Mystic Trumpeter
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- #232Leaves of Grass (To a Locomotive in Winter)
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- #233O Magnet-South
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- #234Leaves of Grass (Mannahatta)
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- #235All Is Truth
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- #236A Riddle Song
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- #237Excelsior
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- #238Ah Poverties, Wincing, and Sulky Retreats
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- #239Thoughts-V
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- #240Mediums
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- #241Weave in, My Hardy Life
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- #242Spain, 1873-74
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- #243By Broad Potomac’s Shore
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- #244From Far Dakota’s Canyons [June 25, 1876]
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- #245Old War-Dreams
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- #246Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
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- #247Leaves of Grass (As I Walk These Broad majestic Days)
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- #248Leaves of Grass (A Clear Midnight)
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- #249As the Time Draws Nigh
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- #250Years of the Modern
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- #251Ashes of Soldiers
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- #252Thoughts VI
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- #253Song at Sunset
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- #254As at Thy Portals Also Death
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- #255My Legacy
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- #256Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
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- #257Camps of Green
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- #258The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
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- #259As They Draw to a Close
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- #260Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
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- #261Leaves of Grass (The Untold Want )
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- #262Portals
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- #263These Carols
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- #264Now Finale to the Shore
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- #265Leaves of Grass (So Long! )
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- #266Mannahatta II
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- #267Paumanok
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- #268From Montauk Point
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- #269To Those Who’ve Fail’d
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- #270A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
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- #271The Bravest Soldiers
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- #272A Font of Type
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- #273As I Sit Writting Here
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- #274My Canary Bird
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- #275Queries to My Seventieth Year
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- #276The Wallabout Martyrs
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- #277The First Dandelion
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- #278Leaves of Grass (America)
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- #279Memories
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- #280To-Day and Thee
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- #281After the Dazzle of Day
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- #282Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
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- #283Out of May’s Shows Selected
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- #284Halcyon Days
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- #285Election Day, November, 1884
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- #286With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
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- #287Death of General Grant
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- #288Red Jacket (From Aloft)
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- #289Leaves of Grass (Washington’s Monument February, 1885)
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- #290Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
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- #291Broadway
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- #292To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
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- #293Old Salt Kossabone
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- #294The Dead Tenor
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- #295Leaves of Grass (Continuities)
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- #296Yonnondio
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- #297Life
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- #298“Going Somewhere”
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- #299Small the Theme of My Chant
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- #300True Conquerors
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- #301The United States to Old World Critics
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- #302The Calming Thought of All
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- #303Thanks in Old Age
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- #304Life and Death
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- #305The Voice of the Rain
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- #306Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
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- #307While Not the Past Forgetting
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- #308The Dying Veteran
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- #309Stronger Lessons
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- #310A Prairie Sunset
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- #311Twenty Years
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- #312Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
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- #313Twilight
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- #314You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
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- #315Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
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- #316The Dead Emperor
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- #317As the Greek’s Signal Flame
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- #318The Dismantled Ship
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- #319Now Precent Songs, Farewell
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- #320An Evening Lull
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- #321Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
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- #322Leaves of Grass (After the Supper and Talk)
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- #323Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
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- #324Lingering Last Drops
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- #325Leaves of Grass (Good-Bye My Fancy)
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- #326On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
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- #327MY 71st Year
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- #328Apparitions
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- #329The Pallid Wreath
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- #330An Ended Day
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- #331Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
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- #332To the Pending Year
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- #333Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
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- #334Long, Long Hence
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- #335Bravo, Paris Exposition!
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- #336Interpolation Sounds
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- #337To the Sun-Set Breeze
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- #338Old Chants
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- #339A Christmas Greeting
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- #340Sounds of the Winter
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- #341A Twilight Song
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- #342When the Full-Grown Poet Came
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- #343Osceola
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- #344A Voice from Death
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- #345A Persian Lesson
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- #346The Commonplace
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- #347“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
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- #348Mirages
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- #349L. of G.’s Purport
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- #350The Unexpress’d
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- #351Grand Is the Seen
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- #352Unseen Buds
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- #353Good-Bye My Fancy! II
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- #354A Hand-Mirror
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- #355Unfolded Out of the Folds
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- #356Passage to India
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- #357Sometimes with One I Love
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- #358A Woman Waits for Me
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- #359World Below the Brine
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- #360The Sleepers
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- #361To Think of Time
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- #362Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
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- #363Spontaneous Me
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- #364A Glimpse
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- #365Among the Multitude
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- #366A Boston Ballad, 1854
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- #367A Farm-Picture
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- #368A Child’s Amaze
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- #369A Noiseless Patient Spider
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- #370I Hear America Singing
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- #371I Sing the Body Electric
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- #372O Me! O Life!
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- #373Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
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- #374301. Hours Continuing Long
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- #375Preface (Leaves of Grass)
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- #376A Leaf For Hand in Hand
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- #377Pioneers! O Pioneers!
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- #378As I Ponder’d in Silence (Inscriptions)
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- #379For You, O Democracy
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- #380One’s-Self I Sing [Redundant]
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The Ship Starting by Walt Whitman
Performed by
Walt WhitmanThe Ship Starting Annotated
Lo, the unbounded sea,
On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even
her moonsails.
The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—
below emulous waves press forward,
They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.