Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman is a poet who lived from 1819 to 1892 whose writing is in the public domain. You can learn more about their life on Wikipedia.
All Poems
1891
- "Going Somewhere" 54
- "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" 71
- A Boston Ballad [1854] 53
- A Broadway Pageant 52
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine 66
- A Child's Amaze ★ 1100
- A Christmas Greeting 81
- A Clear Midnight 91
- A Farm Picture 79
- A Font of Type 71
- A Glimpse 35
- A Hand-Mirror ★ 146
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand ★ 167
- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 65
- A Noiseless Patient Spider 49
- A Paumanok Picture 59
- A Persian Lesson 37
- A Prairie Sunset 89
- A Promise to California 62
- A Riddle Song 49
- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 56
- A Song for Occupations ★ 265
- A Song of Joys 52
- A Song of the Rolling Earth 34
- A Twilight Song 57
- A Voice from Death 63
- A Woman Waits for Me 57
- Aboard at a Ship's Helm ★ 143
- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 58
- Adieu to a Soldier 105
- After the Dazzle of Day ★ 149
- After the Sea-Ship 63
- After the Supper and Talk ★ 163
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 47
- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats 46
- All Is Truth 48
- America 78
- Among the Multitude 73
- An Army Corps on the March 56
- An Ended Day 57
- An Evening Lull 54
- Apparitions 79
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? 67
- As Adam Early in the Morning 39
- As Consequent, Etc. 59
- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life ★ 136
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 58
- As I Ponder'd in Silence 42
- As I Sit Writing Here ★ 175
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 59
- As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing 51
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me 64
- As They Draw to a Close 30
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 43
- As at Thy Portals Also Death 63
- As the Greek's Signal Flame 50
- As the Time Draws Nigh 56
- Ashes of Soldiers 59
- Assurances 41
- Beat! Beat! Drums! ★ 164
- Beautiful Women 99
- Beginners 54
- Beginning My Studies 77
- Behold This Swarthy Face 68
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side 46
- Bravo, Paris Exposition! 50
- Broadway 56
- By Blue Ontario's Shore 30
- By Broad Potomac's Shore 61
- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 47
- Camps of Green 26
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford 73
- Chanting the Square Deific 60
- City of Orgies 51
- City of Ships 43
- Come Up from the Fields Father 47
- Continuities 67
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 59
- Darest Thou Now O Soul 55
- Death of General Grant 69
- Delicate Cluster 38
- Dirge for Two Veterans 89
- Earth, My Likeness 63
- Eidolons 47
- Eighteen Sixty-One 55
- Election Day, November, 1884 62
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 54
- Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States] 34
- Excelsior 25
- Faces 58
- Facing West from California's Shores 67
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! 66
- First O Songs for a Prelude 55
- For Him I Sing 51
- For You, O Democracy ★ 152
- France [the 18th Year of these States 57
- From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] 58
- From Montauk Point 77
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird 61
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 63
- Full of Life Now 65
- Germs 101
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 54
- Gliding O'er all 53
- Gods 63
- Good-Bye My Fancy ★ 182
- Good-Bye My Fancy! ★ 164
- Grand Is the Seen ★ 139
- Halcyon Days 67
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour ★ 3103
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 63
- How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865] 59
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865 61
- I Am He That Aches with Love 49
- I Dream'd in a Dream 36
- I Hear America Singing ★ 166
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 64
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 69
- I Saw Old General at Bay 51
- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 53
- I Sing the Body Electric 67
- I Sit and Look Out 64
- I Was Looking a Long While 41
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea 38
- In Paths Untrodden ★ 165
- Interpolation Sounds 61
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 40
- Kosmos 56
- L. of G.'s Purport 58
- Laws for Creations ★ 162
- Life 79
- Life and Death 40
- Lingering Last Drops ★ 173
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks 48
- Locations and Times 46
- Long, Long Hence 90
- Long, Too Long America 41
- Look Down Fair Moon 61
- MY 71st Year 62
- Mannahatta 66
- Me Imperturbe 39
- Mediums 24
- Memories 74
- Miracles 37
- Mirages ★ 137
- Mother and Babe 69
- My Canary Bird ★ 7078
- My Legacy 77
- My Picture-Gallery ★ 2050
- Myself and Mine 50
- Native Moments 38
- Night on the Prairies 57
- No Labor-Saving Machine 64
- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes 55
- Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only 58
- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone 67
- Not Youth Pertains to Me 45
- Not the Pilot 75
- Now Finale to the Shore 67
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell 48
- O Captain! My Captain! 57
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! 54
- O Living Always, Always Dying ★ 150
- O Magnet-South 60
- O Me! O Life! 45
- O Star of France [1870-71] 42
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 63
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 66
- Of Him I Love Day and Night 22
- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine 67
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 40
- Offerings 67
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks 78
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's 39
- Old Chants 60
- Old Ireland 45
- Old Salt Kossabone 63
- Old War-Dreams 26
- On Journeys Through the States 56
- On the Beach at Night 29
- On the Beach at Night Alone 61
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! 32
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 43
- One Hour to Madness and Joy 47
- One's-Self I Sing 72
- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida 67
- Osceola ★ 158
- Others May Praise What They Like 48
- Our Old Feuillage 68
- Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] 67
- Out of May's Shows Selected 40
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 63
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 56
- Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] 65
- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 40
- Passage to India 59
- Patroling Barnegat 56
- Paumanok 64
- Pensive and Faltering 69
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing 43
- Perfections 82
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! 63
- Poets to Come ★ 175
- Portals ★ 281
- Prayer of Columbus 54
- Proud Music of the Storm 40
- Queries to My Seventieth Year 37
- Quicksand Years 69
- Race of Veterans 55
- Reconciliation 52
- Recorders Ages Hence 46
- Red Jacket (From Aloft) 44
- Reversals 92
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 73
- Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel] 66
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 41
- Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! ★ 175
- Salut au Monde! 39
- Savantism 68
- Scented Herbage of My Breast ★ 158
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher 68
- Shut Not Your Doors ★ 171
- Small the Theme of My Chant 44
- So Long! 24
- Sometimes with One I Love ★ 163
- Song at Sunset ★ 145
- Song for All Seas, All Ships ★ 142
- Song of Myself 59
- Song of Prudence 47
- Song of the Answerer 62
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak 57
- Song of the Broad-Axe 63
- Song of the Exposition 63
- Song of the Open Road 55
- Song of the Redwood-Tree 63
- Song of the Universal 56
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here 34
- Sounds of the Winter ★ 258
- Spain, 1873-74 51
- Sparkles from the Wheel 62
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865] 56
- Spontaneous Me 103
- Starting from Paumanok 78
- Still Though the One I Sing 71
- Stronger Lessons ★ 162
- Tears 22
- Tests 72
- Thanks in Old Age 44
- That Music Always Round Me 34
- That Shadow My Likeness 48
- The Artilleryman's Vision 37
- The Base of All Metaphysics 35
- The Bravest Soldiers 76
- The Calming Thought of All 59
- The Centenarian's Story 37
- The City Dead-House 58
- The Commonplace 75
- The Dalliance of the Eagles 32
- The Dead Emperor 82
- The Dead Tenor 46
- The Dismantled Ship ★ 1125
- The Dying Veteran ★ 159
- The First Dandelion ★ 7114
- The Last Invocation 73
- The Mystic Trumpeter 63
- The Ox-Tamer 63
- The Pallid Wreath 46
- The Prairie States 47
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing 39
- The Return of the Heroes 47
- The Runner 75
- The Ship Starting ★ 292
- The Singer in the Prison 21
- The Sleepers 59
- The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881] 77
- The Torch 61
- The Unexpress'd 77
- The United States to Old World Critics 57
- The Untold Want 68
- The Voice of the Rain 81
- The Wallabout Martyrs 50
- The World below the Brine 63
- The Wound-Dresser 41
- There Was a Child Went Forth 43
- These Carols ★ 153
- These I Singing in Spring 44
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 46
- This Compost 43
- This Dust Was Once the Man ★ 1102
- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 59
- Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 47
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling 59
- Thou Reader 82
- Thought 64
- Thoughts 56
- To Foreign Lands ★ 172
- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs 22
- To Him That Was Crucified 44
- To Old Age 92
- To One Shortly to Die 43
- To Rich Givers 75
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad] 60
- To Thee Old Cause 64
- To Think of Time 35
- To Those Who've Fail'd ★ 169
- To You 55
- To a Certain Cantatrice 33
- To a Certain Civilian 54
- To a Common Prostitute 51
- To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire 64
- To a Historian 64
- To a Locomotive in Winter 35
- To a President 47
- To a Pupil 45
- To a Stranger 66
- To a Western Boy ★ 195
- To the East and to the West 68
- To the Garden the World 37
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod 43
- To the Man-of-War-Bird 53
- To the Pending Year 68
- To the States 73
- To the Sun-Set Breeze 53
- To-Day and Thee 77
- Transpositions 56
- Trickle Drops 69
- True Conquerors 47
- Turn O Libertad 57
- Twenty Years 44
- Twilight 81
- Unfolded out of the Folds 60
- Unnamed Land 41
- Unseen Buds 61
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 36
- Virginia—The West 26
- Visor'd 104
- Vocalism 49
- Wandering at Morn 48
- Warble for Lilac-Time 55
- Washington's Monument February, 1885 37
- We Two Boys Together Clinging 62
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd 41
- Weave in, My Hardy Life 65
- What Am I After All 39
- What Place Is Besieged? 73
- What Ship Puzzled at Sea 49
- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 57
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day 41
- When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 74
- When I Read the Book 66
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 67
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came ★ 166
- While Not the Past Forgetting 78
- Whispers of Heavenly Death ★ 167
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 69
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 51
- With All Thy Gifts 53
- With Antecedents 63
- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 60
- World Take Good Notice 65
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 73
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 68
- Years of the Modern 48
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours 61
- Yonnondio ★ 146
- You Felons on Trial in Courts 61
- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me 53
- Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 86