What am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;I stand apart to hear,…

Weave in! weave in, my hardy life!Weave yet a soldier strong and full, for great campaigns to come;Weave in red blood! weave sinews in, like…

We two, how long we were fool’d!Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes;We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return;We…

We two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,Arm’d and…

Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time,Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature’s sake, and sweet life’s sake, and death’s the same as life’s,Souvenirs…

Wandering at morn,Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts,Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing Bird divine!Thee, seated coil’d in evil…

To The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,Resist much, obey little;Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;Once fully enslaved, no…

I I CELEBRATE myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.  I loafe and invite my…

Now I make a leaf of Voices, for I have found nothing mightier than they are,And I have found that no word spoken, but is…

A mask, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,Concealing her face, concealing her form,Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,Falling upon her even when she sleeps.