I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I pass’d the church;Winds of autumn! – as I walk’d the woods at…

I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions;But really I am neither for nor against institutions;(What indeed have I in…

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear;Those of mechanics – each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong;The carpenter singing…

I dream’d in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;I dream’d that was…

I am he that aches with amorous love;Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?So the Body of me, to all…

Hush’d be the camps to-day;And, soldiers, let us drape our war-worn weapons;And each with musing soul retire, to celebrate,Our dear commander’s death. No more for…

How solemn, as one by one,As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty–as the men file by where I stand;As the faces, the masks appear–as…

Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted,Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating myself, leaning my face in my…

What ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfect pilot needs?Here, sailor!…

Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting:Here I shade and hide my thoughts – I myself do not expose them,And yet they…