As consequent from store of summer rains,Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing,Or many a herb-lined brook’s reticulations,Or subterranean sea-rills making for the sea,Songs of continued…

AS at thy portals also death,Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,To memories of my mother, to the divine blending, maternity,To her, buried and gone, yet…

As Adam, early in the morning,Walking forth from the bower, refresh’d with sleep;Behold me where I pass–hear my voice–approach,Touch me–touch the palm of your hand…

AS a strong bird on pinions free,Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,Such be the thought I’d think to-day of thee, America,Such be the recitative I’d…

Are you the new person drawn toward me?To begin with, take warning–I am surely far different from what you suppose;Do you suppose you will find…

O mater! O fils!O brood continental!O flowers of the prairies!O space boundless! O hum of mighty products!O you teeming cities! O so invincible, turbulent, proud!O…

An old man�s thought of School; An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself cannot.  Now only do I know you! O fair auroral…

With its cloud of skirmishers in advance,With now the sound of a single shot, snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,The swarming ranks…

Among the men and women, the multitude,I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,Acknowledging none else–not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any…

America always!Always our own feuillage!Always Florida’s green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas!Always California’s golden hills and…