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" 56
- "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" 73
- A Boston Ballad [1854] 55
- A Broadway Pageant 54
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine 68
- A Child's Amaze ★ 1102
- A Christmas Greeting 83
- A Clear Midnight 93
- A Farm Picture 81
- A Font of Type 73
- A Glimpse 37
- A Hand-Mirror ★ 148
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand ★ 169
- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 67
- A Noiseless Patient Spider 51
- A Paumanok Picture 61
- A Persian Lesson 39
- A Prairie Sunset 91
- A Promise to California 64
- A Riddle Song 51
- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 58
- A Song for Occupations ★ 267
- A Song of Joys 54
- A Song of the Rolling Earth 36
- A Twilight Song 60
- A Voice from Death 65
- A Woman Waits for Me 59
- Aboard at a Ship's Helm ★ 145
- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 60
- Adieu to a Soldier 107
- After the Dazzle of Day ★ 151
- After the Sea-Ship 65
- After the Supper and Talk ★ 165
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 49
- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats 48
- All Is Truth 50
- America 80
- Among the Multitude 75
- An Army Corps on the March 58
- An Ended Day 59
- An Evening Lull 56
- Apparitions 81
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? 69
- As Adam Early in the Morning 41
- As Consequent, Etc. 62
- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life ★ 138
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 60
- As I Ponder'd in Silence 44
- As I Sit Writing Here ★ 177
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 61
- As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing 53
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me 66
- As They Draw to a Close 32
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 45
- As at Thy Portals Also Death 65
- As the Greek's Signal Flame 52
- As the Time Draws Nigh 58
- Ashes of Soldiers 61
- Assurances 43
- Beat! Beat! Drums! ★ 166
- Beautiful Women 101
- Beginners 56
- Beginning My Studies 79
- Behold This Swarthy Face 70
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side 48
- Bravo, Paris Exposition! 52
- Broadway 58
- By Blue Ontario's Shore 32
- By Broad Potomac's Shore 63
- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 49
- Camps of Green 28
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford 75
- Chanting the Square Deific 62
- City of Orgies 53
- City of Ships 45
- Come Up from the Fields Father 49
- Continuities 69
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 61
- Darest Thou Now O Soul 57
- Death of General Grant 71
- Delicate Cluster 40
- Dirge for Two Veterans 91
- Earth, My Likeness 65
- Eidolons 49
- Eighteen Sixty-One 57
- Election Day, November, 1884 64
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 56
- Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States] 36
- Excelsior 27
- Faces 60
- Facing West from California's Shores 69
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! 68
- First O Songs for a Prelude 57
- For Him I Sing 53
- For You, O Democracy ★ 154
- France [the 18th Year of these States 59
- From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] 60
- From Montauk Point 79
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird 63
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 65
- Full of Life Now 67
- Germs 103
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 56
- Gliding O'er all 55
- Gods 65
- Good-Bye My Fancy ★ 184
- Good-Bye My Fancy! ★ 166
- Grand Is the Seen ★ 141
- Halcyon Days 69
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour ★ 3105
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 65
- How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865] 61
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865 63
- I Am He That Aches with Love 52
- I Dream'd in a Dream 38
- I Hear America Singing ★ 168
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 66
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 71
- I Saw Old General at Bay 53
- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 55
- I Sing the Body Electric 69
- I Sit and Look Out 65
- I Was Looking a Long While 43
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea 40
- In Paths Untrodden ★ 167
- Interpolation Sounds 63
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 42
- Kosmos 58
- L. of G.'s Purport 60
- Laws for Creations ★ 164
- Life 81
- Life and Death 42
- Lingering Last Drops ★ 175
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks 50
- Locations and Times 48
- Long, Long Hence 92
- Long, Too Long America 43
- Look Down Fair Moon 63
- MY 71st Year 64
- Mannahatta 68
- Me Imperturbe 42
- Mediums 26
- Memories 76
- Miracles 39
- Mirages ★ 139
- Mother and Babe 71
- My Canary Bird ★ 7080
- My Legacy 79
- My Picture-Gallery ★ 2052
- Myself and Mine 52
- Native Moments 40
- Night on the Prairies 59
- No Labor-Saving Machine 66
- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes 57
- Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only 60
- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone 69
- Not Youth Pertains to Me 47
- Not the Pilot 77
- Now Finale to the Shore 69
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell 50
- O Captain! My Captain! 59
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! 56
- O Living Always, Always Dying ★ 152
- O Magnet-South 62
- O Me! O Life! 47
- O Star of France [1870-71] 44
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 65
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 68
- Of Him I Love Day and Night 24
- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine 69
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 42
- Offerings 69
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks 80
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's 41
- Old Chants 62
- Old Ireland 47
- Old Salt Kossabone 65
- Old War-Dreams 28
- On Journeys Through the States 58
- On the Beach at Night 31
- On the Beach at Night Alone 63
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! 34
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 45
- One Hour to Madness and Joy 49
- One's-Self I Sing 74
- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida 69
- Osceola ★ 160
- Others May Praise What They Like 50
- Our Old Feuillage 70
- Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] 69
- Out of May's Shows Selected 42
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 65
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 58
- Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] 67
- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 42
- Passage to India 61
- Patroling Barnegat 58
- Paumanok 66
- Pensive and Faltering 71
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing 45
- Perfections 84
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! 65
- Poets to Come ★ 177
- Portals ★ 283
- Prayer of Columbus 56
- Proud Music of the Storm 42
- Queries to My Seventieth Year 39
- Quicksand Years 71
- Race of Veterans 57
- Reconciliation 54
- Recorders Ages Hence 48
- Red Jacket (From Aloft) 46
- Reversals 94
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 75
- Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel] 68
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 43
- Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! ★ 177
- Salut au Monde! 41
- Savantism 70
- Scented Herbage of My Breast ★ 160
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher 70
- Shut Not Your Doors ★ 173
- Small the Theme of My Chant 46
- So Long! 26
- Sometimes with One I Love ★ 165
- Song at Sunset ★ 147
- Song for All Seas, All Ships ★ 144
- Song of Myself 61
- Song of Prudence 49
- Song of the Answerer 64
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak 59
- Song of the Broad-Axe 65
- Song of the Exposition 65
- Song of the Open Road 57
- Song of the Redwood-Tree 65
- Song of the Universal 58
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here 36
- Sounds of the Winter ★ 260
- Spain, 1873-74 53
- Sparkles from the Wheel 64
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865] 58
- Spontaneous Me 105
- Starting from Paumanok 80
- Still Though the One I Sing 73
- Stronger Lessons ★ 164
- Tears 24
- Tests 74
- Thanks in Old Age 46
- That Music Always Round Me 36
- That Shadow My Likeness 50
- The Artilleryman's Vision 39
- The Base of All Metaphysics 37
- The Bravest Soldiers 78
- The Calming Thought of All 61
- The Centenarian's Story 39
- The City Dead-House 60
- The Commonplace 77
- The Dalliance of the Eagles 34
- The Dead Emperor 84
- The Dead Tenor 48
- The Dismantled Ship ★ 1127
- The Dying Veteran ★ 161
- The First Dandelion ★ 7116
- The Last Invocation 75
- The Mystic Trumpeter 65
- The Ox-Tamer 65
- The Pallid Wreath 48
- The Prairie States 49
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing 41
- The Return of the Heroes 49
- The Runner 77
- The Ship Starting ★ 294
- The Singer in the Prison 23
- The Sleepers 61
- The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881] 79
- The Torch 63
- The Unexpress'd 79
- The United States to Old World Critics 59
- The Untold Want 70
- The Voice of the Rain 83
- The Wallabout Martyrs 52
- The World below the Brine 65
- The Wound-Dresser 43
- There Was a Child Went Forth 45
- These Carols ★ 155
- These I Singing in Spring 46
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 48
- This Compost 45
- This Dust Was Once the Man ★ 1104
- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 61
- Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 49
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling 61
- Thou Reader 84
- Thought 66
- Thoughts 58
- To Foreign Lands ★ 174
- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs 24
- To Him That Was Crucified 46
- To Old Age 94
- To One Shortly to Die 45
- To Rich Givers 77
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad] 62
- To Thee Old Cause 66
- To Think of Time 37
- To Those Who've Fail'd ★ 171
- To You 57
- To a Certain Cantatrice 35
- To a Certain Civilian 56
- To a Common Prostitute 53
- To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire 66
- To a Historian 66
- To a Locomotive in Winter 37
- To a President 49
- To a Pupil 47
- To a Stranger 68
- To a Western Boy ★ 197
- To the East and to the West 70
- To the Garden the World 39
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod 45
- To the Man-of-War-Bird 55
- To the Pending Year 70
- To the States 75
- To the Sun-Set Breeze 55
- To-Day and Thee 79
- Transpositions 58
- Trickle Drops 71
- True Conquerors 49
- Turn O Libertad 59
- Twenty Years 46
- Twilight 83
- Unfolded out of the Folds 62
- Unnamed Land 43
- Unseen Buds 63
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 38
- Virginia—The West 28
- Visor'd 106
- Vocalism 53
- Wandering at Morn 50
- Warble for Lilac-Time 57
- Washington's Monument February, 1885 39
- We Two Boys Together Clinging 64
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd 43
- Weave in, My Hardy Life 67
- What Am I After All 41
- What Place Is Besieged? 75
- What Ship Puzzled at Sea 51
- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 59
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day 43
- When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 76
- When I Read the Book 68
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 69
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came ★ 168
- While Not the Past Forgetting 80
- Whispers of Heavenly Death ★ 169
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 71
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 53
- With All Thy Gifts 55
- With Antecedents 65
- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 62
- World Take Good Notice 67
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 75
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 70
- Years of the Modern 50
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours 63
- Yonnondio ★ 148
- You Felons on Trial in Courts 63
- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me 55
- Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 88