Beginning my studies, the first step pleas’d me so much,The mere fact, consciousness–these forms–the power of motion,The least insect or animal–the senses–eyesight–love;The first step, I…

How they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals;)How dear and dreadful they are to the earth;How they inure to themselves as much…

Women sit, or move to and fro–some old, some young;The young are beautiful–but the old are more beautiful than the young.

Beat! beat! drums!–Blow! bugles! blow!Through the windows–through doors–burst like a ruthless force,Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation;Into the school where the scholar is…

Bathed in war’s perfume–delicate flag!(Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,)O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers! flag like a…

I need no assurances–I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul;I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the…

Again a verse for sake of you,You soldiers in the ranks–you Volunteers,Who bravely fighting, silent fell,To fill unmention’d graves. Ashes of soldiers!As I muse, retrospective,…

As toilsome I wander’d Virginia’s woods,To the music of rustling leaves, kick’d by my feet, (for ’twas autumn,)I mark’d at the foot of a tree…

As the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud,A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me. I shall go forth,I shall traverse The States…

As if a phantom caress’d me,I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore;But the one I thought was with me, as now…