ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Reading edition
This little volume of poems, selected from the complete edition published by us, is issued with the approval of the Whitman Executors, T. B. Harned and Horace Traubel, holders of the copyright. With one exception each poem here printed is complete.
The Publishers.
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America ii
I. POEMS OF WAR
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 3
Beat! Beat! Drums! 4
City of Ships 6
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 7
Come Up From the Fields Father 9
A Twilight Song 12
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 14
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 16
First O Songs for a Prelude 17
Song of the Banner at Daybreak 21
The Dying Veteran 31
The Wound-Dresser 32
Dirge for Two Veterans 37
From Far Dakota's Cañons 39
Old War-Dreams 41
Delicate Cluster 42
To a Certain Civilian 43
Adieu to a Soldier 44
Long, Too Long America 45
II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR
Weave In, My Hardy Life 49
How Solemn as One by One 50
Spirit Whose Work Is Done 51
The Return of the Heroes 53
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 62
O Captain! My Captain! 76
Hush'd be the Camps To-day 78
Ashes of Soldiers 79
Pensive on her Dead Gazing 82
III. POEMS OF AMERICA
I Hear America Singing 87
Pioneers! O Pioneers! 88
Song of the Broad-axe 95
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 113
Faces 116
O Magnet-South 118
By Broad Potomac's Shore 121
Our Old Feuillage! 122
A Broadway Pageant 131
The Prairie States 137
IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY
To Foreign Lands 141
To Thee Old Cause 142
For You O Democracy 143
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 144
What Best I See in Thee 153
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 154
The United States to Old World Critics 156
Years of the Modern 157
O Star of France 158
Thoughts 161
By Blue Ontario's Shore 164
Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 191