What Place Is Besieged?
Walt Whitman * Track #18 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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What Place Is Besieged? by Walt Whitman
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Walt WhitmanWhat Place Is Besieged? Annotated
What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.