Chapter X: Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy

Paumanok From Montauk Point To Those Who've Fail'd A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine The Bravest Soldiers A Font of Type As I Sit Writing Here My Canary Bird Queries to My Seventieth Year The Wallabout Martyrs The First Dandelion America Memories To-Day and Thee After the Dazzle of Day Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 Out of May's Shows Selected Halcyon Days Election Day, November, 1884 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! Death of General Grant Red Jacket (From Aloft) Washington's Monument February, 1885 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine Broadway To Get the Final Lilt of Songs Old Salt Kossabone The Dead Tenor Continuities Yonnondio Life "Going Somewhere" Small the Theme of My Chant True Conquerors The United States to Old World Critics The Calming Thought of All Thanks in Old Age Life and Death The Voice of the Rain Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here While Not the Past Forgetting The Dying Veteran Stronger Lessons A Prairie Sunset Twenty Years Orange Buds by Mail from Florida Twilight You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone The Dead Emperor As the Greek's Signal Flame The Dismantled Ship Now Precedent Songs, Farewell An Evening Lull Old Age's Lambent Peaks After the Supper and Talk BOOKXXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY Lingering Last Drops Good-Bye My Fancy On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! MY 71st Year Apparitions The Pallid Wreath An Ended Day Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's To the Pending Year Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher Long, Long Hence Bravo, Paris Exposition! Interpolation Sounds To the Sun-Set Breeze Old Chants A Christmas Greeting Sounds of the Winter A Twilight Song When the Full-Grown Poet Came Osceola A Voice from Death A Persian Lesson The Commonplace "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" Mirages L. of G.'s Purport The Unexpress'd Grand Is the Seen Unseen Buds Good-Bye My Fancy!

DRUM-TAPS By Walt Whitman

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DRUM-TAPS FIRST O SONGS FOR A PRELUDE. EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE. BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK. RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. VIRGINIA—THE WEST. CITY OF SHIPS. THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY. CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD. BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE. AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH. BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME. COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER. VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT. A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST, AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN. A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM. AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS. NOT THE PILOT. YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME. THE WOUND-DRESSER. LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA. GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS. OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE. I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY. THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION. ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLOURS. NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME. RACE OF VETERANS. WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE. O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY. LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON. RECONCILIATION. HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE. AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO. DELICATE CLUSTER. TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN. LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS. SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE. ADIEU TO A SOLDIER. TURN O LIBERTAD. TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD.

THE PATRIOTIC POEMS Of Walt Whitman

CONTENTS PAGE 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

COMPLETE PROSE WORKS Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy By Walt Whitman

CONTENTS DETAILED CONTENTS SPECIMEN DAYS A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND COLLECT ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS DEMOCRATIC VISTAS ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" PREFACE, 1855 To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y. PREFACE, 1872 To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with PREFACE, 1876 To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN LECTURE TWO LETTERS NOTES LEFT OVER APPENDIX PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH NOVEMBER BOUGHS OUR EMINENT VISITORS THE BIBLE AS POETRY FATHER TAYLOR (AND ORATORY) THE SPANISH ELEMENT IN OUR NATIONALITY WHAT LURKS BEHIND SHAKSPERE'S HISTORICAL PLAYS A THOUGHT ON SHAKSPERE ROBERT BURNS AS POET AND PERSON A WORD ABOUT TENNYSON SLANG IN AMERICA AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE SOME DIARY NOTES AT RANDOM SOME WAR MEMORANDA FIVE THOUSAND POEMS THE OLD BOWERY NOTES TO LATE ENGLISH BOOKS PREFACE TO THE READER IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS—"Specimen Days in PREFACE TO "DEMOCRATIC VISTAS" WITH OTHER PAPERS—English Edition ABRAHAM LINCOLN NEW ORLEANS IN 1848 SMALL MEMORANDA LAST OF THE WAR CASES Endnotes (such as they are) founded on GOOD-BYE MY FANCY AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE A DEATH-BOUQUET SOME LAGGARDS YET MEMORANDA PREFACE WALT WHITMAN'S LAST {49}

THE WOUND DRESSER A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington During the War of the Rebellion By Walt Whitman CONTENTS Page The Great Army of the Wounded 1 Life among Fifty Thousand Soldiers 11 Hospital Visits 21 Letters of 1862-3 47 Letters of 1864 143