While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long,And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant…

That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering;How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it…

That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning yet long untaught I did not hear;But now the chorus I hear, and am elated;A tenor, strong, ascending,…

AT the last, tenderly,From the walls of the powerful, fortress’d house,From the clasp of the knitted locks from the keep of the well-closed doors,Let me…

All submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis, in the Soul;Not traditions not the outer authorities are the judges they are…

Tears! tears! tears!In the night, in solitude, tears;On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck’d in by the sand;Tears not a star shining all dark and…

Still, though the one I sing,(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,I leave in him Revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless,…

States!Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers?By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? Away!I arrive, bringing these, beyond all the…

Starting from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother;After roaming many lands lover of populous pavements;Dweller in Mannahatta, my city…

Spontaneous me, Nature,The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,The hill-side whiten’d…