Preface: Seafaring America • Introduction: Apologia for the Sea • A Note on the Text • The Ocean (1842) • The Mississippi at Midnight (1848) • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1855) • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1856) • 3. from Poem of Salutation • 11. Sun-Down Poem • 24. Poem of Perfect Miracles • 28. Bunch Poem • 31. Poem of The Sayers of The Words of The Earth • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1860–61) • from Proto-Leaf • from Chants Democratic and Native American • Apostroph • from Leaves of Grass • 4. “Something startles me” • Poem of Joys • A Word Out of the Sea • from Enfans d’Adam • 7. “You and I—what the earth is, we are” • 10. “Inquiring, tireless, seeking that yet unfound” • from Calamus • 3. “Whoever you are holding me now in hand” • 4. “These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers” • 11. “When I heard at the close of the day” • 13. “Calamus taste” • 14. “Not heat flames up and consumes” • 19. “Mind you the timid models of the rest” • 26. “We two boys together clinging” • 31. “What ship, puzzled at sea” • 32. “What think you I take my pen in hand to record?” • 37. “A leaf for hand in hand!” • Longings for Home • from Messenger Leaves • To Old Age • Mannahatta • FROM DRUM-TAPS (1865) AND SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS: WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR-YARD BLOOM’D AND OTHER POEMS (1865–66) • Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps • City of Ships • The Torch • The Ship • Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd • World, Take Good Notice • from When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d • O Captain! My Captain! • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1867) • from Starting from Paumanok • from Children of Adam • From Pent-Up Aching Rivers • Facing West from California’s Shores • from Song of the Open Road • Respondez! • As If a Phantom Caress’d Me • from Songs Before Parting • from As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores • Song At Sunset • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1871–72), PASSAGE TO INDIA (1871), AND AS A STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE (1872) • from Inscriptions • In Cabin’d Ships at Sea • from Songs of Insurrection • France, the 18th Year of These States • from Passage to India • Passage to India • from Whispers of Heavenly Death • Whispers of Heavenly Death • from Leaves of Grass • Warble for Lilac-Time • from Now Finale to the Shore • Now Finale to the Shore • The Untold Want • Joy, Shipmate, Joy! • from As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free • As a Strong Bird with Pinions Free • O Star of France! • By Broad Potomac’s Shore • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1876) AND TWO RIVULETS (1876) • The Beauty of the Ship • from Two Rivulets • Two Rivulets • Or from That Sea of Time • Eidólons • Spain, 1873–74 • Prayer of Columbus • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1881–82) • Sea-Drift • Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking • As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life • Tears • To the Man-of-War Bird • Aboard at a Ship’s Helm • On the Beach at Night • The World Below the Brine • On the Beach at Night Alone • Song for All Seas, All Ships • Patroling Barnegat • After the Sea-Ship • from Autumn Rivulets • As Consequent, Etc. • FROM SPECIMEN DAYS & COLLECT (1882–83) • Paumanok, and My Life on It as Child and Young Man • My Passion for Ferries • An Interregnum Paragraph • To the Spring and the Brook • A July Afternoon by the Pond • from Autumn Side-Bits • A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach • Sea-Shore Fancies • A Two-Hours’ Ice-Sail • An Afternoon Scene • A Sun-Bath—Nakedness • A Jaunt Up the Hudson • Manhattan from the Bay • A Night Remembrance • Delaware River—Days and Nights • Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter’s Nights • Up the Hudson to Ulster County • An Ulster County Waterfall • Hudson River Sights • Swallows on the River • Departing of the Big Steamers • New Senses—New Joys • Unfulfilled Wants—the Arkansas River • Earth’s Most Important Stream • Nights on the Mississippi • A Hint of Wild Nature • Seeing Niagara to Advantage • The St. Lawrence Line • The Savage Saguenay • Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha Bay • My Native Sand and Salt Once More • An Ossianic Night—Dearest Friends • Only a New Ferry Boat • The Great Unrest of Which We Are a Part • FROM LEAVES OF GRASS (1891–92) • from First Annex: Sands at Seventy • Paumanok • From Montauk Point • A Font of Type • Fancies at Navesink • (The Pilot in the Mist—Had I the Choice—You Tides with Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In—By That Long Scan of Waves—Then Last of All.) • With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! • Of That Blithe Throat of Thine • Yonnondio • The Voice of the Rain • Twenty Years • The Dismantled Ship • from Second Annex: Good-Bye My Fancy • Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! • Lingering Last Drops • An Ended Day • Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s • Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher • To the Sun-set Breeze • A Twilight Song • A Voice from Death • A Persian Lesson • Grand Is the Seen • from A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads • “There is a river . . .” (Date unknown) • Notes • Index of Titles and First Lines