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" 69
- "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" 85
- A Boston Ballad [1854] 67
- A Broadway Pageant 66
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine 80
- A Child's Amaze ★ 1114
- A Christmas Greeting 95
- A Clear Midnight 105
- A Farm Picture 93
- A Font of Type 85
- A Glimpse 49
- A Hand-Mirror ★ 160
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand ★ 181
- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 78
- A Noiseless Patient Spider 63
- A Paumanok Picture 73
- A Persian Lesson 51
- A Prairie Sunset 105
- A Promise to California 76
- A Riddle Song 63
- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 70
- A Song for Occupations ★ 279
- A Song of Joys 66
- A Song of the Rolling Earth 48
- A Twilight Song 72
- A Voice from Death 77
- A Woman Waits for Me 71
- Aboard at a Ship's Helm ★ 157
- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 72
- Adieu to a Soldier 119
- After the Dazzle of Day ★ 163
- After the Sea-Ship 77
- After the Supper and Talk ★ 177
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 61
- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats 60
- All Is Truth 60
- America 93
- Among the Multitude 87
- An Army Corps on the March 70
- An Ended Day 71
- An Evening Lull 68
- Apparitions 92
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? 81
- As Adam Early in the Morning 52
- As Consequent, Etc. 74
- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life ★ 150
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 72
- As I Ponder'd in Silence 56
- As I Sit Writing Here ★ 189
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 73
- As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing 65
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me 78
- As They Draw to a Close 44
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 57
- As at Thy Portals Also Death 77
- As the Greek's Signal Flame 64
- As the Time Draws Nigh 70
- Ashes of Soldiers 73
- Assurances 55
- Beat! Beat! Drums! ★ 178
- Beautiful Women 110
- Beginners 66
- Beginning My Studies 91
- Behold This Swarthy Face 82
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side 60
- Bravo, Paris Exposition! 65
- Broadway 70
- By Blue Ontario's Shore 44
- By Broad Potomac's Shore 75
- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 61
- Camps of Green 40
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford 87
- Chanting the Square Deific 74
- City of Orgies 65
- City of Ships 57
- Come Up from the Fields Father 61
- Continuities 81
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 73
- Darest Thou Now O Soul 69
- Death of General Grant 83
- Delicate Cluster 53
- Dirge for Two Veterans 103
- Earth, My Likeness 77
- Eidolons 59
- Eighteen Sixty-One 69
- Election Day, November, 1884 76
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 68
- Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States] 48
- Excelsior 39
- Faces 74
- Facing West from California's Shores 81
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! 80
- First O Songs for a Prelude 69
- For Him I Sing 65
- For You, O Democracy ★ 166
- France [the 18th Year of these States 71
- From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] 72
- From Montauk Point 91
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird 74
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 77
- Full of Life Now 80
- Germs 115
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 69
- Gliding O'er all 67
- Gods 77
- Good-Bye My Fancy ★ 197
- Good-Bye My Fancy! ★ 178
- Grand Is the Seen ★ 151
- Halcyon Days 80
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour ★ 3117
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 77
- How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865] 73
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865 75
- I Am He That Aches with Love 66
- I Dream'd in a Dream 50
- I Hear America Singing ★ 180
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 78
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 83
- I Saw Old General at Bay 65
- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 67
- I Sing the Body Electric 81
- I Sit and Look Out 70
- I Was Looking a Long While 55
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea 52
- In Paths Untrodden ★ 179
- Interpolation Sounds 75
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 54
- Kosmos 70
- L. of G.'s Purport 72
- Laws for Creations ★ 176
- Life 93
- Life and Death 54
- Lingering Last Drops ★ 187
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks 62
- Locations and Times 60
- Long, Long Hence 104
- Long, Too Long America 55
- Look Down Fair Moon 75
- MY 71st Year 74
- Mannahatta 80
- Me Imperturbe 54
- Mediums 40
- Memories 86
- Miracles 51
- Mirages ★ 151
- Mother and Babe 83
- My Canary Bird ★ 7092
- My Legacy 91
- My Picture-Gallery ★ 2063
- Myself and Mine 64
- Native Moments 52
- Night on the Prairies 70
- No Labor-Saving Machine 79
- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes 69
- Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only 70
- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone 82
- Not Youth Pertains to Me 59
- Not the Pilot 89
- Now Finale to the Shore 81
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell 62
- O Captain! My Captain! 71
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! 68
- O Living Always, Always Dying ★ 164
- O Magnet-South 71
- O Me! O Life! 59
- O Star of France [1870-71] 56
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 77
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 80
- Of Him I Love Day and Night 36
- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine 81
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 52
- Offerings 81
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks 92
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's 53
- Old Chants 74
- Old Ireland 59
- Old Salt Kossabone 77
- Old War-Dreams 40
- On Journeys Through the States 70
- On the Beach at Night 43
- On the Beach at Night Alone 73
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! 46
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 58
- One Hour to Madness and Joy 61
- One's-Self I Sing 86
- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida 81
- Osceola ★ 172
- Others May Praise What They Like 62
- Our Old Feuillage 82
- Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] 81
- Out of May's Shows Selected 55
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 77
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 70
- Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] 79
- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 54
- Passage to India 73
- Patroling Barnegat 67
- Paumanok 78
- Pensive and Faltering 83
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing 57
- Perfections 96
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! 74
- Poets to Come ★ 189
- Portals ★ 296
- Prayer of Columbus 70
- Proud Music of the Storm 56
- Queries to My Seventieth Year 51
- Quicksand Years 85
- Race of Veterans 69
- Reconciliation 66
- Recorders Ages Hence 59
- Red Jacket (From Aloft) 58
- Reversals 106
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 87
- Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel] 80
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 55
- Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! ★ 189
- Salut au Monde! 53
- Savantism 82
- Scented Herbage of My Breast ★ 172
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher 82
- Shut Not Your Doors ★ 185
- Small the Theme of My Chant 58
- So Long! 38
- Sometimes with One I Love ★ 177
- Song at Sunset ★ 160
- Song for All Seas, All Ships ★ 156
- Song of Myself 73
- Song of Prudence 61
- Song of the Answerer 76
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak 71
- Song of the Broad-Axe 77
- Song of the Exposition 77
- Song of the Open Road 69
- Song of the Redwood-Tree 77
- Song of the Universal 68
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here 48
- Sounds of the Winter ★ 272
- Spain, 1873-74 65
- Sparkles from the Wheel 76
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865] 68
- Spontaneous Me 117
- Starting from Paumanok 92
- Still Though the One I Sing 86
- Stronger Lessons ★ 176
- Tears 36
- Tests 86
- Thanks in Old Age 58
- That Music Always Round Me 48
- That Shadow My Likeness 62
- The Artilleryman's Vision 52
- The Base of All Metaphysics 49
- The Bravest Soldiers 90
- The Calming Thought of All 73
- The Centenarian's Story 51
- The City Dead-House 72
- The Commonplace 89
- The Dalliance of the Eagles 46
- The Dead Emperor 96
- The Dead Tenor 60
- The Dismantled Ship ★ 1139
- The Dying Veteran ★ 173
- The First Dandelion ★ 7128
- The Last Invocation 87
- The Mystic Trumpeter 77
- The Ox-Tamer 77
- The Pallid Wreath 60
- The Prairie States 61
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing 53
- The Return of the Heroes 61
- The Runner 89
- The Ship Starting ★ 2106
- The Singer in the Prison 34
- The Sleepers 73
- The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881] 91
- The Torch 75
- The Unexpress'd 91
- The United States to Old World Critics 73
- The Untold Want 83
- The Voice of the Rain 95
- The Wallabout Martyrs 65
- The World below the Brine 77
- The Wound-Dresser 55
- There Was a Child Went Forth 57
- These Carols ★ 165
- These I Singing in Spring 59
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 60
- This Compost 57
- This Dust Was Once the Man ★ 1116
- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 73
- Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 63
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling 73
- Thou Reader 96
- Thought 78
- Thoughts 70
- To Foreign Lands ★ 186
- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs 36
- To Him That Was Crucified 58
- To Old Age 106
- To One Shortly to Die 58
- To Rich Givers 89
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad] 74
- To Thee Old Cause 78
- To Think of Time 48
- To Those Who've Fail'd ★ 180
- To You 69
- To a Certain Cantatrice 47
- To a Certain Civilian 68
- To a Common Prostitute 65
- To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire 78
- To a Historian 76
- To a Locomotive in Winter 49
- To a President 61
- To a Pupil 59
- To a Stranger 80
- To a Western Boy ★ 1109
- To the East and to the West 83
- To the Garden the World 52
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod 57
- To the Man-of-War-Bird 67
- To the Pending Year 82
- To the States 87
- To the Sun-Set Breeze 67
- To-Day and Thee 91
- Transpositions 70
- Trickle Drops 84
- True Conquerors 61
- Turn O Libertad 71
- Twenty Years 58
- Twilight 95
- Unfolded out of the Folds 74
- Unnamed Land 55
- Unseen Buds 75
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 50
- Virginia—The West 40
- Visor'd 118
- Vocalism 66
- Wandering at Morn 62
- Warble for Lilac-Time 69
- Washington's Monument February, 1885 51
- We Two Boys Together Clinging 76
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd 55
- Weave in, My Hardy Life 79
- What Am I After All 53
- What Place Is Besieged? 87
- What Ship Puzzled at Sea 63
- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 71
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day 55
- When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 88
- When I Read the Book 80
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 79
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came ★ 180
- While Not the Past Forgetting 92
- Whispers of Heavenly Death ★ 181
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 81
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 65
- With All Thy Gifts 67
- With Antecedents 77
- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 74
- World Take Good Notice 79
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 87
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 82
- Years of the Modern 62
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours 76
- Yonnondio ★ 156
- You Felons on Trial in Courts 75
- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me 67
- Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 100