The Age of Realism 1
WALT WHITMAN 8
(1819-1892)
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 10
FROM Inscriptions
One's-Self I Sing 24
When I read the book 24
Beginning my studies 24
Starting from Paumanok 24
Song of Myself 34
FROM Children of Adam
From pent-up aching rivers 78
Out of the rolling ocean the crowd 80
Once I pass'd through a populous city 80
Facing west from California's shores 81
As Adam early in the morning 81
FROM Calamus
In Paths Untrodden 81
Scented herbage of my breast 82
For You O Democracy 83
The Base of All Metaphysics 84
Recorders ages hence 84
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing 85
I hear it was charged against me 85
Here the frailest leaves of me 86