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.

The noble Sire, fallen on evil days,I saw, with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing,(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)The insane knife toward…

Vigil strange I kept on the field one night:When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side that day,One look I but gave,…

I see before me now, a traveling army halting;Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of summer;Behind, the terraced sides of a…

Nations ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States;Garner’d clusters of ages, that men and women like us…