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Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 780 pages

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's poetry collection that sings of the self, the body, democracy, nature, and comradeship. In free verse, it embraces everyday life and the varied voices of America. It is worth hearing for its open, intimate address and its enduring poetic energy.

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Contents

  1. LEAVES OF GRASS
  2. Contents
  3. BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
  4. One’s-Self I Sing
  5. As I Ponder’d in Silence
  6. In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
  7. To Foreign Lands
  8. To a Historian
  9. To Thee Old Cause
  10. Eidolons
  11. For Him I Sing
  12. When I Read the Book
  13. Beginning My Studies
  14. Beginners
  15. To the States
  16. On Journeys Through the States
  17. To a Certain Cantatrice
  18. Me Imperturbe
  19. Savantism
  20. The Ship Starting
  21. I Hear America Singing
  22. What Place Is Besieged?
  23. Still Though the One I Sing
  24. Shut Not Your Doors
  25. Poets to Come
  26. To You
  27. Thou Reader
  28. BOOK II
  29. BOOK III
  30. BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM

and 348 more chapters

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