Who includes diversity, and is Nature,Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of…

Joy! shipmate – joy!(Pleas’d to my Soul at death I cry;)Our life is closed – our life begins;The long, long anchorage we leave,The ship is…

Through the soft evening air enwrinding all,Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,In dulcet streams, in flutes’ and cornets’ notes,Electric, pensive, turbulent artificial,(Yet strangely…

Small is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatest – namely,One’s-Self – that wondrous thing a simple, separate person.That, for the use of…

In the new garden, in all the parts,In cities now, modern, I wander,Though the second or third result, or still further, primitive yet,Days, places, indifferent…

In paths untrodden,In the growth by margins of pond-waters,Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,From all the standards hitherto publish’d – from the pleasures, profits,…

In midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish,Of the look at first of the mortally wounded – of that indescribable look;Of the dead on…

In former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life,But here I twine the strands of Patriotism and Death. And now, Life,…

In cabin’d ships, at sea,The boundless blue on every side expanding,With whistling winds and music of the waves – the large imperious waves – In…

I will take an egg out of the robin’s nest in the orchard,I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the…