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Leaves of Grass p. 1

Inscriptions p. 3

As I Ponder’d in Silence pp. 4–5

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In Cabin’d Ships at Sea pp. 6–7

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To Foreign Lands p. 8

To a Historian p. 9

To Thee Old Cause pp. 10–11

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Eidólons pp. 12–16

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For Him I Sing p. 17

When I Read the Book p. 18

Beginning My Studies p. 19

Beginners p. 20

To the States p. 21

On Journeys Through the States p. 22

To a Certain Cantatrice p. 23

Me Imperturbe p. 24

Savantism p. 25

The Ship Starting p. 26

I Hear America Singing p. 27

What Place Is Besieged? p. 28

Still Though the One I Sing p. 29

Shut Not Your Doors p. 30

Poets to Come p. 31

To You p. 32

Thou Reader p. 33

Starting from Paumanok p. 34

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Song of Myself p. 61

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Children of Adam p. 192

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers pp. 193–196

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I Sing the Body Electric pp. 197–213

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A Woman Waits for Me pp. 214–217

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Spontaneous Me pp. 218–221

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One Hour to Madness and Joy pp. 222–223

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Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd p. 224

Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals p. 225

We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d p. 226

O Hymen! O Hymenee! p. 227

I Am He That Aches with Love p. 228

Native Moments p. 229

Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City p. 230

I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ p. 231

Facing West from California’s Shores p. 232

As Adam Early in the Morning p. 233

Calamus p. 234

In Paths Untrodden p. 235

Scented Herbage of My Breast pp. 236–238

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Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand pp. 239–241

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For You O Democracy p. 242

These I Singing in Spring pp. 243–245

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Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only p. 246

Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances p. 247

The Base of All Metaphysics pp. 248–249

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Recorders Ages Hence p. 250

When I Heard at the Close of the Day p. 251

Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? p. 252

Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone p. 253

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes p. 254

Trickle Drops p. 255

City of Orgies p. 256

Behold This Swarthy Face p. 257

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing p. 258

To a Stranger p. 259

This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful p. 260

I Hear It Was Charged Against Me p. 261

The Prairie-Grass Dividing p. 262

When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame p. 263

We Two Boys Together Clinging p. 264

A Promise to California p. 265

Here the Frailest Leaves of Me p. 266

No Labor-Saving Machine p. 267

A Glimpse p. 268

A Leaf for Hand in Hand p. 269

Earth, My Likeness p. 270

I Dream’d in a Dream p. 271

What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? p. 272

To the East and to the West p. 273

Sometimes with One I Love p. 274

To a Western Boy p. 275

Fast-Anchor’d Eternal O Love! p. 276

Among the Multitude p. 277

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come p. 278

That Shadow My Likeness p. 279

Full of Life Now p. 280

Salut au Monde! p. 281

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Song of the Open Road p. 307

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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry p. 331

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Song of the Answerer pp. 345–350

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Our Old Feuillage pp. 354–363

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A Song of Joys pp. 364–378

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Song of the Broad-Axe p. 379

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Song of the Exposition p. 405

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Song of the Redwood-Tree pp. 428–435

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A Song for Occupations pp. 438–440

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A Song of the Rolling Earth pp. 454–460

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Youth, Day, Old Age and Night p. 467

Birds of Passage pp. 468–471

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Pioneers! O Pioneers! pp. 472–480

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To You pp. 481–485

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France pp. 486–488

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Myself and Mine pp. 489–491

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Year of Meteors pp. 492–494

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With Antecedents pp. 495–498

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A Broadway Pageant pp. 499–500

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Sea-Drift pp. 508–520

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As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life pp. 521–527

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Tears p. 528

To the Man-of-War-Bird pp. 529–530

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Aboard at a Ship’s Helm p. 531

On the Beach at Night pp. 532–534

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The World Below the Brine p. 535

On the Beach at Night Alone p. 536

Song for All Seas, All Ships pp. 537–538

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Patroling Barnegat p. 539

After the Sea-Ship p. 540

By the Roadside pp. 541–544

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Europe pp. 545–547

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A Hand-Mirror p. 548

Gods p. 549

Germs p. 550

Thoughts p. 551

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer p. 552

Perfections p. 553

O Me! O Life! p. 554

To a President p. 555

I Sit and Look Out p. 556

To Rich Givers p. 557

The Dalliance of the Eagles p. 558

Roaming in Thought p. 559

A Farm Picture p. 560

A Child’s Amaze p. 561

The Runner p. 562

Beautiful Women p. 563

Mother and Babe p. 564

Thought p. 565

Visor’d p. 566

Thought p. 567

Gliding O’er All p. 568

Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour p. 569

Thought p. 570

To Old Age p. 571

Locations and Times p. 572

Offerings p. 573

To the States p. 574

Drum-Taps pp. 575–579

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Eighteen Sixty-One p. 580

Beat! Beat! Drums! pp. 581–582

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From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird p. 583

Song of the Banner at Daybreak pp. 584–597

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Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps pp. 598–603

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Virginia⁠—The West p. 604

City of Ships pp. 605–606

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The Centenarian’s Story pp. 607–616

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Cavalry Crossing a Ford p. 617

Bivouac on a Mountain Side p. 618

An Army Corps on the March p. 619

By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame p. 620

Come Up from the Fields Father pp. 621–624

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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night pp. 625–627

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A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown pp. 628–629

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A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim pp. 630–631

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As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods p. 632

Not the Pilot p. 633

Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me p. 634

The Wound-Dresser pp. 635–640

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Long, Too Long America p. 641

Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun pp. 642–645

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Dirge for Two Veterans pp. 646–647

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Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice pp. 648–649

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I Saw Old General at Bay p. 650

The Artilleryman’s Vision pp. 651–653

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Ethiopia Saluting the Colors pp. 654–655

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Not Youth Pertains to Me p. 656

Race of Veterans p. 657

World Take Good Notice p. 658

O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy p. 659

Look Down Fair Moon p. 660

Reconciliation p. 661

How Solemn as One by One p. 662

As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado p. 663

Delicate Cluster p. 664

To a Certain Civilian p. 665

Lo, Victress on the Peaks p. 666

Spirit Whose Work Is Done pp. 667–669

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Adieu to a Soldier p. 670

Turn O Libertad p. 671

To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod pp. 672–673

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Memories of President Lincoln pp. 674–691

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O Captain! My Captain! pp. 692–693

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Hush’d Be the Camps To-day p. 694

This Dust Was Once the Man p. 695

By Blue Ontario’s Shore p. 696

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Reversals p. 729

Autumn Rivulets pp. 730–732

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The Return of the Heroes pp. 733–743

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There Was a Child Went Forth pp. 744–747

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Old Ireland pp. 748–749

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The City Dead-House p. 750

This Compost pp. 751–755

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To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire pp. 756–758

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Unnamed Lands pp. 759–761

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Song of Prudence pp. 762–766

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The Singer in the Prison pp. 767–771

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Warble for Lilac-Time pp. 772–773

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Outlines for a Tomb pp. 774–777

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Out from Behind This Mask pp. 778–779

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Vocalism pp. 780–781

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To Him That Was Crucified pp. 782–783

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You Felons on Trial in Courts pp. 784–785

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Laws for Creations p. 786

To a Common Prostitute p. 787

I Was Looking a Long While p. 788

Thought p. 789

Miracles pp. 790–791

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Sparkles from the Wheel pp. 792–793

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To a Pupil p. 794

Unfolded Out of the Folds p. 795

What Am I After All p. 796

Kosmos p. 797

Others May Praise What They Like p. 798

Who Learns My Lesson Complete? pp. 799–801

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Tests p. 802

The Torch p. 803

O Star of France pp. 804–806

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The Ox-Tamer pp. 807–808

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An Old Man’s Thought of School pp. 809–810

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Wandering at Morn p. 811

Italian Music in Dakota pp. 812–813

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With All Thy Gifts p. 814

My Picture-Gallery p. 815

The Prairie States p. 816

Proud Music of the Storm p. 817

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Passage to India p. 833

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Prayer of Columbus pp. 856–860

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The Sleepers pp. 861–866

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Transpositions p. 880

To Think of Time p. 881

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Whispers of Heavenly Death p. 894

Whispers of Heavenly Death p. 895

Chanting the Square Deific pp. 896–899

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Of Him I Love Day and Night pp. 900–901

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Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours p. 902

As if a Phantom Caress’d Me p. 903

Assurances p. 904

Quicksand Years p. 905

That Music Always Round Me p. 906

What Ship Puzzled at Sea p. 907

A Noiseless Patient Spider p. 908

O Living Always, Always Dying p. 909

To One Shortly to Die p. 910

Night on the Prairies pp. 911–912

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Thought p. 913

The Last Invocation p. 914

As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing p. 915

Pensive and Faltering p. 916

Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood p. 917

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A Paumanok Picture p. 930

From Noon to Starry Night pp. 931–932

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Faces pp. 933–939

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The Mystic Trumpeter pp. 940–946

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To a Locomotive in Winter pp. 947–948

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O Magnet-South pp. 949–950

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Mannahatta pp. 951–953

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All Is Truth pp. 954–955

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A Riddle Song pp. 956–958

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Excelsior pp. 959–960

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Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats p. 961

Thoughts p. 962

Mediums p. 963

Weave In, My Hardy Life p. 964

Spain, 1873⁠–⁠74 p. 965

By Broad Potomac’s Shore p. 966

From Far Dakota’s Canyons pp. 967–968

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Old War-Dreams p. 969

Thick-Sprinkled Bunting p. 970

What Best I See in Thee p. 971

Spirit That Form’d This Scene p. 972

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days p. 973

A Clear Midnight p. 974

Songs of Parting p. 975

Years of the Modern pp. 976–978

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Ashes of Soldiers pp. 979–981

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Thoughts pp. 982–985

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Song at Sunset pp. 986–989

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As at Thy Portals Also Death p. 990

My Legacy p. 991

Pensive on Her Dead Gazing pp. 992–993

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Camps of Green pp. 994–995

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The Sobbing of the Bells p. 996

As They Draw to a Close p. 997

Joy, Shipmate, Joy! p. 998

The Untold Want p. 999

Portals p. 1000

These Carols p. 1001

Now Finalè to the Shore p. 1002

So Long! pp. 1003–1008

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Sands at Seventy p. 1009

Mannahatta p. 1010

Paumanok p. 1011

From Montauk Point p. 1012

To Those Who’ve Fail’d p. 1013

A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine p. 1014

The Bravest Soldiers p. 1015

A Font of Type p. 1016

As I Sit Writing Here p. 1017

My Canary Bird p. 1018

Queries to My Seventieth Year p. 1019

The Wallabout Martyrs p. 1020

The First Dandelion p. 1021

America p. 1022

Memories p. 1023

To-day and Thee p. 1024

After the Dazzle of Day p. 1025

Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 p. 1026

Out of May’s Shows Selected p. 1027

Halcyon Days p. 1028

Fancies at Navesink pp. 1029–1034

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Election Day, November, 1884 pp. 1035–1036

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With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! p. 1037

Death of General Grant p. 1038

Red Jacket (from Aloft) p. 1039

Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 p. 1040

Of That Blithe Throat of Thine p. 1041

Broadway p. 1042

To Get the Final Lilt of Songs p. 1043

Old Salt Kossabone p. 1044

The Dead Tenor p. 1045

Continuities p. 1046

Yonnondio p. 1047

Life p. 1048

“Going Somewhere” p. 1049

Small the Theme of My Chant p. 1050

True Conquerors p. 1051

The United States to Old World Critics p. 1052

The Calming Thought of All p. 1053

Thanks in Old Age p. 1054

Life and Death p. 1055

The Voice of the Rain p. 1056

Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here p. 1057

While Not the Past Forgetting p. 1058

The Dying Veteran pp. 1059–1060

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Stronger Lessons p. 1061

A Prairie Sunset p. 1062

Twenty Years p. 1063

Orange Buds by Mail from Florida p. 1064

Twilight p. 1065

You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me p. 1066

Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone p. 1067

The Dead Emperor p. 1068

As the Greek’s Signal Flame p. 1069

The Dismantled Ship p. 1070

Now Precedent Songs, Farewell p. 1071

An Evening Lull p. 1072

Old Age’s Lambent Peaks p. 1073

After the Supper and Talk p. 1074

Goodbye My Fancy p. 1075

Preface Note to 2nd Annex pp. 1076–1081

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Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! p. 1082

Lingering Last Drops p. 1083

Good-Bye My Fancy p. 1084

On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! p. 1085

My 71st Year p. 1086

Apparitions p. 1087

The Pallid Wreath p. 1088

An Ended Day p. 1089

Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s p. 1090

To the Pending Year p. 1091

Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher p. 1092

Long, Long Hence p. 1093

Bravo, Paris Exposition! p. 1094

Interpolation Sounds p. 1095

To the Sun-Set Breeze p. 1096

Old Chants pp. 1097–1098

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A Christmas Greeting p. 1099

Sounds of the Winter p. 1100

A Twilight Song p. 1101

When the Full-Grown Poet Came p. 1102

Osceola pp. 1103–1104

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A Voice from Death pp. 1105–1108

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A Persian Lesson p. 1109

The Commonplace p. 1110

“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete” p. 1111

Mirages pp. 1112–1114

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L. of G. ’s Purport p. 1115

The Unexpress’d p. 1116

Grand Is the Seen p. 1117

Unseen Buds p. 1118

Goodbye My Fancy! pp. 1119–1120

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Old Age Echoes p. 1121

To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power p. 1122

Then Shall Perceive p. 1123

The Few Drops Known p. 1124

One Thought Ever at the Fore p. 1125

While Behind All Firm and Erect p. 1126

A Kiss to the Bride p. 1127

Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish’d Shame pp. 1128–1129

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Supplement Hours p. 1130

Of Many a Smutch’d Deed Reminiscent p. 1131

To Be at All p. 1132

Death’s Valley pp. 1133–1134

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On the Same Picture p. 1135

A Thought of Columbus pp. 1136–1138

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A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads pp. 1139–1177

Mirages

(Noted verbatim after a supper-talk out doors in Nevada with two old miners)

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