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" 66
- "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" 82
- A Boston Ballad [1854] 64
- A Broadway Pageant 63
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine 77
- A Child's Amaze ★ 1111
- A Christmas Greeting 92
- A Clear Midnight 102
- A Farm Picture 90
- A Font of Type 82
- A Glimpse 46
- A Hand-Mirror ★ 157
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand ★ 178
- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 75
- A Noiseless Patient Spider 60
- A Paumanok Picture 70
- A Persian Lesson 48
- A Prairie Sunset 101
- A Promise to California 73
- A Riddle Song 61
- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 67
- A Song for Occupations ★ 276
- A Song of Joys 63
- A Song of the Rolling Earth 45
- A Twilight Song 69
- A Voice from Death 74
- A Woman Waits for Me 68
- Aboard at a Ship's Helm ★ 154
- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 69
- Adieu to a Soldier 116
- After the Dazzle of Day ★ 160
- After the Sea-Ship 74
- After the Supper and Talk ★ 174
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals 58
- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats 57
- All Is Truth 58
- America 90
- Among the Multitude 84
- An Army Corps on the March 67
- An Ended Day 68
- An Evening Lull 65
- Apparitions 90
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? 78
- As Adam Early in the Morning 49
- As Consequent, Etc. 71
- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life ★ 147
- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 69
- As I Ponder'd in Silence 53
- As I Sit Writing Here ★ 186
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 70
- As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing 62
- As If a Phantom Caress'd Me 75
- As They Draw to a Close 41
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 54
- As at Thy Portals Also Death 74
- As the Greek's Signal Flame 61
- As the Time Draws Nigh 67
- Ashes of Soldiers 70
- Assurances 52
- Beat! Beat! Drums! ★ 175
- Beautiful Women 108
- Beginners 64
- Beginning My Studies 88
- Behold This Swarthy Face 79
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side 57
- Bravo, Paris Exposition! 62
- Broadway 67
- By Blue Ontario's Shore 41
- By Broad Potomac's Shore 72
- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame 58
- Camps of Green 37
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford 84
- Chanting the Square Deific 71
- City of Orgies 62
- City of Ships 54
- Come Up from the Fields Father 58
- Continuities 78
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 70
- Darest Thou Now O Soul 66
- Death of General Grant 81
- Delicate Cluster 50
- Dirge for Two Veterans 100
- Earth, My Likeness 74
- Eidolons 56
- Eighteen Sixty-One 66
- Election Day, November, 1884 73
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 65
- Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States] 45
- Excelsior 36
- Faces 71
- Facing West from California's Shores 78
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! 77
- First O Songs for a Prelude 66
- For Him I Sing 62
- For You, O Democracy ★ 163
- France [the 18th Year of these States 68
- From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] 69
- From Montauk Point 88
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird 72
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 74
- Full of Life Now 77
- Germs 112
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 66
- Gliding O'er all 64
- Gods 74
- Good-Bye My Fancy ★ 194
- Good-Bye My Fancy! ★ 175
- Grand Is the Seen ★ 149
- Halcyon Days 78
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour ★ 3114
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 74
- How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865] 70
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865 72
- I Am He That Aches with Love 63
- I Dream'd in a Dream 47
- I Hear America Singing ★ 177
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 75
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ 80
- I Saw Old General at Bay 62
- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 64
- I Sing the Body Electric 78
- I Sit and Look Out 68
- I Was Looking a Long While 52
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea 49
- In Paths Untrodden ★ 176
- Interpolation Sounds 72
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 51
- Kosmos 67
- L. of G.'s Purport 69
- Laws for Creations ★ 173
- Life 90
- Life and Death 51
- Lingering Last Drops ★ 184
- Lo, Victress on the Peaks 59
- Locations and Times 57
- Long, Long Hence 101
- Long, Too Long America 52
- Look Down Fair Moon 72
- MY 71st Year 71
- Mannahatta 77
- Me Imperturbe 51
- Mediums 37
- Memories 84
- Miracles 48
- Mirages ★ 148
- Mother and Babe 80
- My Canary Bird ★ 7089
- My Legacy 88
- My Picture-Gallery ★ 2060
- Myself and Mine 61
- Native Moments 49
- Night on the Prairies 68
- No Labor-Saving Machine 76
- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes 66
- Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only 67
- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone 78
- Not Youth Pertains to Me 56
- Not the Pilot 86
- Now Finale to the Shore 78
- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell 59
- O Captain! My Captain! 68
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! 65
- O Living Always, Always Dying ★ 161
- O Magnet-South 69
- O Me! O Life! 56
- O Star of France [1870-71] 53
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy 74
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 77
- Of Him I Love Day and Night 33
- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine 78
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances 49
- Offerings 78
- Old Age's Lambent Peaks 89
- Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's 50
- Old Chants 71
- Old Ireland 56
- Old Salt Kossabone 74
- Old War-Dreams 37
- On Journeys Through the States 67
- On the Beach at Night 40
- On the Beach at Night Alone 71
- On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! 43
- Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 55
- One Hour to Madness and Joy 58
- One's-Self I Sing 83
- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida 78
- Osceola ★ 169
- Others May Praise What They Like 59
- Our Old Feuillage 79
- Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] 78
- Out of May's Shows Selected 52
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 74
- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 67
- Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] 76
- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 51
- Passage to India 70
- Patroling Barnegat 65
- Paumanok 75
- Pensive and Faltering 80
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing 54
- Perfections 93
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! 72
- Poets to Come ★ 186
- Portals ★ 293
- Prayer of Columbus 67
- Proud Music of the Storm 52
- Queries to My Seventieth Year 48
- Quicksand Years 82
- Race of Veterans 66
- Reconciliation 63
- Recorders Ages Hence 57
- Red Jacket (From Aloft) 55
- Reversals 103
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 84
- Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel] 77
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone 52
- Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! ★ 186
- Salut au Monde! 50
- Savantism 79
- Scented Herbage of My Breast ★ 169
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher 79
- Shut Not Your Doors ★ 182
- Small the Theme of My Chant 55
- So Long! 35
- Sometimes with One I Love ★ 174
- Song at Sunset ★ 157
- Song for All Seas, All Ships ★ 153
- Song of Myself 70
- Song of Prudence 58
- Song of the Answerer 73
- Song of the Banner at Daybreak 68
- Song of the Broad-Axe 74
- Song of the Exposition 74
- Song of the Open Road 66
- Song of the Redwood-Tree 74
- Song of the Universal 66
- Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here 45
- Sounds of the Winter ★ 269
- Spain, 1873-74 62
- Sparkles from the Wheel 73
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865] 66
- Spontaneous Me 114
- Starting from Paumanok 89
- Still Though the One I Sing 83
- Stronger Lessons ★ 173
- Tears 33
- Tests 83
- Thanks in Old Age 55
- That Music Always Round Me 45
- That Shadow My Likeness 59
- The Artilleryman's Vision 49
- The Base of All Metaphysics 46
- The Bravest Soldiers 87
- The Calming Thought of All 70
- The Centenarian's Story 48
- The City Dead-House 69
- The Commonplace 86
- The Dalliance of the Eagles 43
- The Dead Emperor 93
- The Dead Tenor 57
- The Dismantled Ship ★ 1136
- The Dying Veteran ★ 170
- The First Dandelion ★ 7125
- The Last Invocation 84
- The Mystic Trumpeter 74
- The Ox-Tamer 74
- The Pallid Wreath 57
- The Prairie States 58
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing 50
- The Return of the Heroes 58
- The Runner 86
- The Ship Starting ★ 2103
- The Singer in the Prison 32
- The Sleepers 70
- The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881] 88
- The Torch 72
- The Unexpress'd 88
- The United States to Old World Critics 70
- The Untold Want 79
- The Voice of the Rain 92
- The Wallabout Martyrs 62
- The World below the Brine 74
- The Wound-Dresser 52
- There Was a Child Went Forth 54
- These Carols ★ 163
- These I Singing in Spring 56
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 57
- This Compost 54
- This Dust Was Once the Man ★ 1113
- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful 70
- Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 60
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling 70
- Thou Reader 93
- Thought 75
- Thoughts 67
- To Foreign Lands ★ 183
- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs 33
- To Him That Was Crucified 55
- To Old Age 103
- To One Shortly to Die 55
- To Rich Givers 86
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad] 71
- To Thee Old Cause 75
- To Think of Time 46
- To Those Who've Fail'd ★ 178
- To You 66
- To a Certain Cantatrice 44
- To a Certain Civilian 65
- To a Common Prostitute 62
- To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire 75
- To a Historian 74
- To a Locomotive in Winter 46
- To a President 58
- To a Pupil 56
- To a Stranger 77
- To a Western Boy ★ 1106
- To the East and to the West 80
- To the Garden the World 49
- To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod 54
- To the Man-of-War-Bird 64
- To the Pending Year 79
- To the States 84
- To the Sun-Set Breeze 64
- To-Day and Thee 88
- Transpositions 67
- Trickle Drops 81
- True Conquerors 58
- Turn O Libertad 68
- Twenty Years 55
- Twilight 92
- Unfolded out of the Folds 71
- Unnamed Land 52
- Unseen Buds 72
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 47
- Virginia—The West 37
- Visor'd 115
- Vocalism 63
- Wandering at Morn 59
- Warble for Lilac-Time 66
- Washington's Monument February, 1885 48
- We Two Boys Together Clinging 73
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd 52
- Weave in, My Hardy Life 76
- What Am I After All 50
- What Place Is Besieged? 84
- What Ship Puzzled at Sea 60
- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 68
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day 52
- When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 85
- When I Read the Book 77
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 77
- When the Full-Grown Poet Came ★ 177
- While Not the Past Forgetting 89
- Whispers of Heavenly Death ★ 178
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 79
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 62
- With All Thy Gifts 64
- With Antecedents 74
- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 71
- World Take Good Notice 76
- Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 84
- Year of Meteors [1859-60 79
- Years of the Modern 59
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours 73
- Yonnondio ★ 155
- You Felons on Trial in Courts 72
- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me 64
- Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 97