A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown;A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the darkness;Our army foil’d with loss…

A leaf for hand in hand!You natural persons old and young!You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of theMississippi!You friendly boatmen…

Hold it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)Outside fair costume–within ashes and filth,No more a flashing eye–no more…

A glimpse, through an interstice caught,Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove,late of a winter night–And I unremark’d seated…

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding;And haze, and vista, and the far horizon,…

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth…

Slient and amazed, even when a little boy,I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in hisstatements,As contending against some being or influence.

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know…

A song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms�a song of the soil of fields.  A song…

Over the western sea, hither from Niphon come,Courteous, the swart-cheek’d two-sworded envoys,Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,Ride to-day through Manhattan. Libertad!I do not…