Selected Poems

by Whitman, Walt

• ISBN13: 9780486268781
• ISBN10: 0486268780
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-05-01
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass. Selections include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!"all reprinted from an authoritative text. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

Author Biography

One of America's most influential and innovative poets, Walt Whitman (1819–92) worked as a teacher, journalist, and volunteer nurse during the Civil War. Proclaimed as the nation's first "poet of democracy," Whitman reached out to common readers and opposed censorship with his overt celebrations of sexuality

Table of Contents

"FROM THE SECTION "Inscriptions"
  I Hear America Singing
Starting from Paumanok
"FROM THE SECTION "Children of Adam"
  I Sing the Body Electric
  Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
"FROM THE SECTION "Calamus"
  Recorders Ages Hence
  I Hear It Was Charged against Me
Salut au Monde!
Song of the Open Road
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Song of the Broad-Axe
Song of the Redwood-Tree
A Song for Occupations
A Song of the Rolling Earth
"FROM THE SECTION "Birds of Passage"
  Pioneers! O Pioneers!
"FROM THE SECTION " Sea-Drift"
  Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
"FROM THE SECTION "Drum-Taps"
  Beat! Beat! Drums!
  The Wound-Dresser
"FROM THE SECTION "Memories of President Lincoln"
  When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
  O Captain! My Captain!
By Blue Ontario's Shore
Passage to India
Prayer of Columbus
"FROM THE SECTION "Whispers of Heavenly Death"
  A Noiseless Patient Spider
"FROM THE SECTION "Songs of Parting"
  So Long!