Of Justice�As if Justice could be anything but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors, As if it might be this thing or…

As I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral, in…

Of persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like; To me, all that those persons have arrived at, sinks away from them, except…

Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men, following the lead of…

As they draw to a close,Of what underlies the precedent songs of my aims in them;Of the seed I have sought to plant in them;Of…

Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,Therefore for thee the following chants.

Thou orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,And tawny streaks…

This moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone,It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful;It seems to me I can…

This dust was once the Man,Gentle, plain, just and resolute under whose cautious hand,Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,Was…

This day, O Soul, I give you a wondrous mirror;Long in the dark, in tarnish and cloud it lay But the cloud has pass’d, and…