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" 53
- "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" 70
- A Boston Ballad [1854] 52
- A Broadway Pageant 51
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine 65
- A Child's Amaze ★ 199
- A Christmas Greeting 80
- A Clear Midnight 90
- A Farm Picture 78
- A Font of Type 70
- A Glimpse 34
- A Hand-Mirror ★ 145
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand ★ 166
- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 64
- A Noiseless Patient Spider 48
- A Paumanok Picture 58
- A Persian Lesson 36
- A Prairie Sunset 88
- A Promise to California 61
- A Riddle Song 48
- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 55
- A Song for Occupations ★ 264
- A Song of Joys 51
- A Song of the Rolling Earth 33
- A Twilight Song 56
- A Voice from Death 62
- A Woman Waits for Me 56
- Aboard at a Ship's Helm ★ 142
- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 57
- Adieu to a Soldier 104
- After the Dazzle of Day ★ 148
- After the Sea-Ship 62
- After the Supper and Talk ★ 162
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 46
- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats 45
- All Is Truth 47
- America 77
- Among the Multitude 72
- An Army Corps on the March 55
- An Ended Day 56
- An Evening Lull 53
- Apparitions 78
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? 66
- As Adam Early in the Morning 38
- As Consequent, Etc. 58
- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life ★ 135
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 57
- As I Ponder'd in Silence 41
- As I Sit Writing Here ★ 174
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 58
- As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing 50
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me 63
- As They Draw to a Close 29
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 42
- As at Thy Portals Also Death 62
- As the Greek's Signal Flame 49
- As the Time Draws Nigh 55
- Ashes of Soldiers 58
- Assurances 40
- Beat! Beat! Drums! ★ 163
- Beautiful Women 98
- Beginners 53
- Beginning My Studies 76
- Behold This Swarthy Face 67
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side 45
- Bravo, Paris Exposition! 49
- Broadway 55
- By Blue Ontario's Shore 29
- By Broad Potomac's Shore 60
- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 46
- Camps of Green 25
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford 72
- Chanting the Square Deific 59
- City of Orgies 50
- City of Ships 42
- Come Up from the Fields Father 46
- Continuities 66
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 58
- Darest Thou Now O Soul 54
- Death of General Grant 68
- Delicate Cluster 37
- Dirge for Two Veterans 88
- Earth, My Likeness 62
- Eidolons 46
- Eighteen Sixty-One 54
- Election Day, November, 1884 61
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 53
- Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States] 33
- Excelsior 24
- Faces 57
- Facing West from California's Shores 66
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! 65
- First O Songs for a Prelude 54
- For Him I Sing 50
- For You, O Democracy ★ 151
- France [the 18th Year of these States 56
- From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] 57
- From Montauk Point 76
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird 60
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 62
- Full of Life Now 64
- Germs 100
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 53
- Gliding O'er all 52
- Gods 62
- Good-Bye My Fancy ★ 181
- Good-Bye My Fancy! ★ 163
- Grand Is the Seen ★ 138
- Halcyon Days 66
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour ★ 3102
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 62
- How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865] 58
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865 60
- I Am He That Aches with Love 48
- I Dream'd in a Dream 35
- I Hear America Singing ★ 165
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 63
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 68
- I Saw Old General at Bay 50
- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 52
- I Sing the Body Electric 66
- I Sit and Look Out 63
- I Was Looking a Long While 40
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea 37
- In Paths Untrodden ★ 164
- Interpolation Sounds 60
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 39
- Kosmos 55
- L. of G.'s Purport 57
- Laws for Creations ★ 161
- Life 78
- Life and Death 39
- Lingering Last Drops ★ 172
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks 47
- Locations and Times 45
- Long, Long Hence 89
- Long, Too Long America 40
- Look Down Fair Moon 60
- MY 71st Year 61
- Mannahatta 65
- Me Imperturbe 38
- Mediums 23
- Memories 73
- Miracles 36
- Mirages ★ 136
- Mother and Babe 68
- My Canary Bird ★ 7077
- My Legacy 76
- My Picture-Gallery ★ 2049
- Myself and Mine 49
- Native Moments 37
- Night on the Prairies 56
- No Labor-Saving Machine 63
- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes 54
- Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only 57
- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone 66
- Not Youth Pertains to Me 44
- Not the Pilot 74
- Now Finale to the Shore 66
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell 47
- O Captain! My Captain! 56
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! 53
- O Living Always, Always Dying ★ 149
- O Magnet-South 59
- O Me! O Life! 44
- O Star of France [1870-71] 41
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 62
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 65
- Of Him I Love Day and Night 21
- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine 66
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 39
- Offerings 66
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks 77
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's 38
- Old Chants 59
- Old Ireland 44
- Old Salt Kossabone 62
- Old War-Dreams 25
- On Journeys Through the States 55
- On the Beach at Night 28
- On the Beach at Night Alone 60
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! 31
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 42
- One Hour to Madness and Joy 46
- One's-Self I Sing 71
- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida 66
- Osceola ★ 157
- Others May Praise What They Like 47
- Our Old Feuillage 67
- Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] 66
- Out of May's Shows Selected 39
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 62
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 55
- Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] 64
- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 39
- Passage to India 58
- Patroling Barnegat 55
- Paumanok 63
- Pensive and Faltering 68
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing 42
- Perfections 81
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! 62
- Poets to Come ★ 174
- Portals ★ 280
- Prayer of Columbus 53
- Proud Music of the Storm 39
- Queries to My Seventieth Year 36
- Quicksand Years 68
- Race of Veterans 54
- Reconciliation 51
- Recorders Ages Hence 45
- Red Jacket (From Aloft) 43
- Reversals 91
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 72
- Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel] 65
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 40
- Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! ★ 174
- Salut au Monde! 38
- Savantism 67
- Scented Herbage of My Breast ★ 157
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher 67
- Shut Not Your Doors ★ 170
- Small the Theme of My Chant 43
- So Long! 23
- Sometimes with One I Love ★ 162
- Song at Sunset ★ 144
- Song for All Seas, All Ships ★ 141
- Song of Myself 58
- Song of Prudence 46
- Song of the Answerer 61
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak 56
- Song of the Broad-Axe 62
- Song of the Exposition 62
- Song of the Open Road 54
- Song of the Redwood-Tree 62
- Song of the Universal 55
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here 33
- Sounds of the Winter ★ 257
- Spain, 1873-74 50
- Sparkles from the Wheel 61
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865] 55
- Spontaneous Me 102
- Starting from Paumanok 77
- Still Though the One I Sing 70
- Stronger Lessons ★ 161
- Tears 21
- Tests 71
- Thanks in Old Age 43
- That Music Always Round Me 33
- That Shadow My Likeness 47
- The Artilleryman's Vision 36
- The Base of All Metaphysics 34
- The Bravest Soldiers 75
- The Calming Thought of All 58
- The Centenarian's Story 36
- The City Dead-House 57
- The Commonplace 74
- The Dalliance of the Eagles 31
- The Dead Emperor 81
- The Dead Tenor 45
- The Dismantled Ship ★ 1124
- The Dying Veteran ★ 158
- The First Dandelion ★ 7113
- The Last Invocation 72
- The Mystic Trumpeter 62
- The Ox-Tamer 62
- The Pallid Wreath 45
- The Prairie States 46
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing 38
- The Return of the Heroes 46
- The Runner 74
- The Ship Starting ★ 291
- The Singer in the Prison 20
- The Sleepers 58
- The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881] 76
- The Torch 60
- The Unexpress'd 76
- The United States to Old World Critics 56
- The Untold Want 67
- The Voice of the Rain 80
- The Wallabout Martyrs 49
- The World below the Brine 62
- The Wound-Dresser 40
- There Was a Child Went Forth 42
- These Carols ★ 152
- These I Singing in Spring 43
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 45
- This Compost 42
- This Dust Was Once the Man ★ 1101
- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 58
- Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 46
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling 58
- Thou Reader 81
- Thought 63
- Thoughts 55
- To Foreign Lands ★ 171
- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs 21
- To Him That Was Crucified 43
- To Old Age 91
- To One Shortly to Die 42
- To Rich Givers 74
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad] 59
- To Thee Old Cause 63
- To Think of Time 34
- To Those Who've Fail'd ★ 168
- To You 54
- To a Certain Cantatrice 32
- To a Certain Civilian 53
- To a Common Prostitute 50
- To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire 63
- To a Historian 63
- To a Locomotive in Winter 34
- To a President 46
- To a Pupil 44
- To a Stranger 65
- To a Western Boy ★ 194
- To the East and to the West 67
- To the Garden the World 36
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod 42
- To the Man-of-War-Bird 52
- To the Pending Year 67
- To the States 72
- To the Sun-Set Breeze 52
- To-Day and Thee 76
- Transpositions 55
- Trickle Drops 68
- True Conquerors 46
- Turn O Libertad 56
- Twenty Years 43
- Twilight 80
- Unfolded out of the Folds 59
- Unnamed Land 40
- Unseen Buds 60
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 35
- Virginia—The West 25
- Visor'd 103
- Vocalism 48
- Wandering at Morn 47
- Warble for Lilac-Time 54
- Washington's Monument February, 1885 36
- We Two Boys Together Clinging 61
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd 40
- Weave in, My Hardy Life 64
- What Am I After All 38
- What Place Is Besieged? 72
- What Ship Puzzled at Sea 48
- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 56
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day 40
- When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 73
- When I Read the Book 65
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 66
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came ★ 165
- While Not the Past Forgetting 77
- Whispers of Heavenly Death ★ 166
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 68
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 50
- With All Thy Gifts 52
- With Antecedents 62
- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 59
- World Take Good Notice 64
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 72
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 67
- Years of the Modern 47
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours 60
- Yonnondio ★ 145
- You Felons on Trial in Courts 60
- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me 52
- Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 85