索书号：I712.24 /W615p (HF)
The portable Walt Whitman
Contents
Leaves of grass, 1850-1891 (selections)
Editor's Note to Preface to Leaves of Grass
Preface to Leaves of Grass. 1855
Editor's Note to Leaves of Crass
The first edition, 1855
Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States, 1850
Song of Myself, 1855
A Song for Occupations, 1855
To Think of Time, 1855
The Sleepers. 1855
I Sing the Body Electric, 1855
There Was a Child Went Forth, 1855
Song of the Broad-Axe, 1856
This Compost, 1856
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, 1856
Song of the Open Road, 1856
A Woman Waits for Me, 1856
On the Beach at Night Alone, 1856
To a Foii'd European Revolutionaire, 1856
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 1859
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life, I860
Me Imperturbe, 1860
I Hear America Singing, 1860
Poets to Come, 1860
From Pent-up Aching Rivers, 1860 Native Moments, 1860
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City, 1860 Facing West from California's Shores, 1860
As Adam Early in the Morning, 1861
Calamus
In Paths Untrodden, 1860
Scented Herbage of My Breast, 1860
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand, 1860
For You 0 Democracy, 1860
These I Singing in Spring, 1860
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances, 1860
Recorders Ages Hence, 1860
When I Heard at the Close of the Day, 1860
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone, 1860
Of Him I Love Day and Night, 1860
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing, 1860
I Hear It Was Charged against Me, 1860
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me, 1860
Sometimes with One I Love, 1860
Among the Multitude, 1860
That Shadow My Likeness. 1860
The World below the Brine, 1860
I Sit and Look Out, 1860
To Him That Was Crucified. 1860
You Felons on Trial in Courts, 1860
To a Common Prostitute, 1860
0 Magnet-South, 1860
Mannahatta, 1860
All Is Truth, 1860
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ, 1861
The Ship Starting, 1865
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd, 1865
Pioneers! 0 Pioneers! 1865
When I heard the Leam'd Astronomer, 1865
A Farm Picture, 1865
Drum-taps
Beat! Beat! Drums! 1861
City of Ships, 1865 Cavalry Crossing a Ford, 1865
Bivouac on a Mountain Side, 1865
An Army Corps on the March, 1865-66
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame, 1865
Come Up from the Fields Father, 1865
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night, 1865
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown, 1865
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, 1865
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods, 1865
The Wound-Dresser, 1865
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, 1865
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice, 1860
I Saw Old General at Bay, 1865
Look Down Fair Moon, 1865
Reconciliation, 1865-66
To a Certain Civilian, 1865
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, 1865-66
0 Captain! My Captain! 1865-66
Old War-Dreams, 1865-66
Years of the Modem. 1865
Ashes of Soldiers, 1865
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, 1865
Shut Not Your Doors, 1865
Chanting the Square Deific, 1865-65
One's-Self I Sing, 1867
Tears, 1867
Aboard at a Ship's Helm, 1867
The Runner, 1867
A Noiseless Patient Spider, 1868
The Last Invocation, 1868
Proud Music of the Storm, 1869
The Base of All Metaphysics, 1871
Song of the Exposition, 1871
On the Beach at Night, 1871
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, 1871
Sparkles from the Wheel, 1871
Passage to India, 1871
The Mystic Trumpeter, 1872
Prayer of Columbus, 1874
After the Sea-Ship, 1874
The Ox-Tamer, 1874
To the Man-of-War Bird, 1876
The Dalliance of the Eagles, 1880
Good-bye My Fancy! 1891
Editor's Note to "A Backward Glance O'er Travei'd Roads"
A backward glance o'er travel'd roads, 1888
Abstract
After reading Leaves of Grass, Robert Louis Stevenson called it "a book which tumbled the world upside down
for me," For many others, too, from Whitman's day to ours, this book has come as an epochal experience, as
flushed with life and poetic quality now as then. Mark Van Doren's Portable Walt Whitman includes one hundred
poems from Leaves of Grass, as well as two of Whitman's prose works in their entirety. Democratic Vistas and his
wonderfully rambling reminiscences, Specimen Days. In addition, this volume contains a brief chronology and
bibliographical checklist by Whitman biographer Gay Wilson Alien.