I was looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants – and now I…

I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore,But the one I thought was with me, as now I walk by the shore,As…

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men,…

I sing the Body electric;The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;They will not let me off till I go with…

I saw old General at bay;(Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars;)His small force was now completely hemm’d…

I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous…

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…