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

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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





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

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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