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" 64
- "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" 80
- A Boston Ballad [1854] 62
- A Broadway Pageant 61
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine 75
- A Child's Amaze ★ 1109
- A Christmas Greeting 90
- A Clear Midnight 100
- A Farm Picture 88
- A Font of Type 80
- A Glimpse 44
- A Hand-Mirror ★ 155
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand ★ 176
- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 73
- A Noiseless Patient Spider 58
- A Paumanok Picture 68
- A Persian Lesson 46
- A Prairie Sunset 99
- A Promise to California 71
- A Riddle Song 58
- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 65
- A Song for Occupations ★ 274
- A Song of Joys 61
- A Song of the Rolling Earth 43
- A Twilight Song 67
- A Voice from Death 72
- A Woman Waits for Me 66
- Aboard at a Ship's Helm ★ 152
- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 67
- Adieu to a Soldier 114
- After the Dazzle of Day ★ 158
- After the Sea-Ship 72
- After the Supper and Talk ★ 172
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 56
- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats 55
- All Is Truth 56
- America 88
- Among the Multitude 82
- An Army Corps on the March 65
- An Ended Day 66
- An Evening Lull 63
- Apparitions 88
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? 76
- As Adam Early in the Morning 47
- As Consequent, Etc. 69
- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life ★ 145
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 67
- As I Ponder'd in Silence 51
- As I Sit Writing Here ★ 184
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 68
- As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing 60
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me 73
- As They Draw to a Close 39
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 52
- As at Thy Portals Also Death 72
- As the Greek's Signal Flame 59
- As the Time Draws Nigh 65
- Ashes of Soldiers 68
- Assurances 50
- Beat! Beat! Drums! ★ 173
- Beautiful Women 106
- Beginners 62
- Beginning My Studies 86
- Behold This Swarthy Face 77
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side 55
- Bravo, Paris Exposition! 60
- Broadway 65
- By Blue Ontario's Shore 39
- By Broad Potomac's Shore 70
- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 56
- Camps of Green 35
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford 82
- Chanting the Square Deific 69
- City of Orgies 60
- City of Ships 52
- Come Up from the Fields Father 56
- Continuities 76
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 68
- Darest Thou Now O Soul 64
- Death of General Grant 78
- Delicate Cluster 48
- Dirge for Two Veterans 98
- Earth, My Likeness 72
- Eidolons 54
- Eighteen Sixty-One 64
- Election Day, November, 1884 71
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 63
- Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States] 43
- Excelsior 34
- Faces 69
- Facing West from California's Shores 76
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! 75
- First O Songs for a Prelude 64
- For Him I Sing 60
- For You, O Democracy ★ 161
- France [the 18th Year of these States 66
- From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] 67
- From Montauk Point 86
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird 70
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 72
- Full of Life Now 75
- Germs 110
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 64
- Gliding O'er all 62
- Gods 72
- Good-Bye My Fancy ★ 192
- Good-Bye My Fancy! ★ 173
- Grand Is the Seen ★ 147
- Halcyon Days 75
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour ★ 3112
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 72
- How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865] 68
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865 70
- I Am He That Aches with Love 61
- I Dream'd in a Dream 45
- I Hear America Singing ★ 175
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 73
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 78
- I Saw Old General at Bay 60
- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 62
- I Sing the Body Electric 76
- I Sit and Look Out 67
- I Was Looking a Long While 50
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea 47
- In Paths Untrodden ★ 174
- Interpolation Sounds 70
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 49
- Kosmos 65
- L. of G.'s Purport 67
- Laws for Creations ★ 171
- Life 88
- Life and Death 49
- Lingering Last Drops ★ 182
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks 57
- Locations and Times 55
- Long, Long Hence 99
- Long, Too Long America 50
- Look Down Fair Moon 70
- MY 71st Year 69
- Mannahatta 75
- Me Imperturbe 49
- Mediums 34
- Memories 82
- Miracles 46
- Mirages ★ 146
- Mother and Babe 78
- My Canary Bird ★ 7087
- My Legacy 86
- My Picture-Gallery ★ 2058
- Myself and Mine 59
- Native Moments 47
- Night on the Prairies 66
- No Labor-Saving Machine 73
- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes 64
- Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only 65
- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone 76
- Not Youth Pertains to Me 54
- Not the Pilot 84
- Now Finale to the Shore 76
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell 57
- O Captain! My Captain! 66
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! 63
- O Living Always, Always Dying ★ 159
- O Magnet-South 67
- O Me! O Life! 54
- O Star of France [1870-71] 51
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 72
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 75
- Of Him I Love Day and Night 31
- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine 76
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 47
- Offerings 76
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks 87
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's 48
- Old Chants 69
- Old Ireland 54
- Old Salt Kossabone 72
- Old War-Dreams 35
- On Journeys Through the States 65
- On the Beach at Night 38
- On the Beach at Night Alone 69
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! 41
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 53
- One Hour to Madness and Joy 56
- One's-Self I Sing 81
- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida 76
- Osceola ★ 167
- Others May Praise What They Like 57
- Our Old Feuillage 77
- Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] 76
- Out of May's Shows Selected 49
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 72
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 65
- Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] 74
- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 49
- Passage to India 68
- Patroling Barnegat 63
- Paumanok 73
- Pensive and Faltering 78
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing 52
- Perfections 91
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! 70
- Poets to Come ★ 184
- Portals ★ 291
- Prayer of Columbus 64
- Proud Music of the Storm 50
- Queries to My Seventieth Year 46
- Quicksand Years 79
- Race of Veterans 64
- Reconciliation 61
- Recorders Ages Hence 55
- Red Jacket (From Aloft) 53
- Reversals 101
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 82
- Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel] 75
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 50
- Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! ★ 184
- Salut au Monde! 48
- Savantism 77
- Scented Herbage of My Breast ★ 167
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher 77
- Shut Not Your Doors ★ 180
- Small the Theme of My Chant 53
- So Long! 33
- Sometimes with One I Love ★ 172
- Song at Sunset ★ 155
- Song for All Seas, All Ships ★ 151
- Song of Myself 68
- Song of Prudence 56
- Song of the Answerer 71
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak 66
- Song of the Broad-Axe 72
- Song of the Exposition 72
- Song of the Open Road 64
- Song of the Redwood-Tree 72
- Song of the Universal 64
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here 43
- Sounds of the Winter ★ 267
- Spain, 1873-74 60
- Sparkles from the Wheel 71
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865] 64
- Spontaneous Me 112
- Starting from Paumanok 87
- Still Though the One I Sing 81
- Stronger Lessons ★ 171
- Tears 31
- Tests 81
- Thanks in Old Age 53
- That Music Always Round Me 43
- That Shadow My Likeness 57
- The Artilleryman's Vision 47
- The Base of All Metaphysics 44
- The Bravest Soldiers 85
- The Calming Thought of All 68
- The Centenarian's Story 46
- The City Dead-House 67
- The Commonplace 84
- The Dalliance of the Eagles 41
- The Dead Emperor 91
- The Dead Tenor 55
- The Dismantled Ship ★ 1134
- The Dying Veteran ★ 168
- The First Dandelion ★ 7123
- The Last Invocation 82
- The Mystic Trumpeter 72
- The Ox-Tamer 72
- The Pallid Wreath 55
- The Prairie States 56
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing 48
- The Return of the Heroes 56
- The Runner 84
- The Ship Starting ★ 2101
- The Singer in the Prison 30
- The Sleepers 68
- The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881] 86
- The Torch 70
- The Unexpress'd 86
- The United States to Old World Critics 67
- The Untold Want 77
- The Voice of the Rain 90
- The Wallabout Martyrs 60
- The World below the Brine 72
- The Wound-Dresser 50
- There Was a Child Went Forth 52
- These Carols ★ 161
- These I Singing in Spring 54
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 55
- This Compost 52
- This Dust Was Once the Man ★ 1111
- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 68
- Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 58
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling 68
- Thou Reader 91
- Thought 73
- Thoughts 65
- To Foreign Lands ★ 181
- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs 31
- To Him That Was Crucified 53
- To Old Age 101
- To One Shortly to Die 53
- To Rich Givers 84
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad] 69
- To Thee Old Cause 73
- To Think of Time 44
- To Those Who've Fail'd ★ 176
- To You 64
- To a Certain Cantatrice 42
- To a Certain Civilian 63
- To a Common Prostitute 60
- To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire 73
- To a Historian 72
- To a Locomotive in Winter 44
- To a President 56
- To a Pupil 54
- To a Stranger 75
- To a Western Boy ★ 1104
- To the East and to the West 78
- To the Garden the World 46
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod 52
- To the Man-of-War-Bird 62
- To the Pending Year 77
- To the States 82
- To the Sun-Set Breeze 62
- To-Day and Thee 86
- Transpositions 65
- Trickle Drops 79
- True Conquerors 56
- Turn O Libertad 66
- Twenty Years 53
- Twilight 90
- Unfolded out of the Folds 69
- Unnamed Land 50
- Unseen Buds 70
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 45
- Virginia—The West 35
- Visor'd 113
- Vocalism 60
- Wandering at Morn 57
- Warble for Lilac-Time 64
- Washington's Monument February, 1885 46
- We Two Boys Together Clinging 71
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd 50
- Weave in, My Hardy Life 74
- What Am I After All 48
- What Place Is Besieged? 82
- What Ship Puzzled at Sea 58
- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 66
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day 50
- When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 83
- When I Read the Book 75
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 75
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came ★ 175
- While Not the Past Forgetting 87
- Whispers of Heavenly Death ★ 176
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 77
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 60
- With All Thy Gifts 62
- With Antecedents 72
- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 69
- World Take Good Notice 74
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 82
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 77
- Years of the Modern 57
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours 71
- Yonnondio ★ 153
- You Felons on Trial in Courts 70
- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me 62
- Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 95