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Sonnets—Fifth Series
XVI “Let me give something!—as the years unfold” 1728
The Cricket 1729
Sidney Lanier 1733
The Ship of Earth 1734
Corn 1734
Evening Song 1739
The Marches of Glynn 1740
Abraham Lincoln 1743
To Horace Greeley 1744
Gettysburg Address 1745
Second Inaugural Address 1746
Walt Whitman 1748
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 1750
From Inscriptions
One’s-Self I Sing 1768
Starting from Paumanok 1769
Song of Myself 1779
From Children of Adam
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 1828
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 1830
Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City 1831
Facing West from California’s Shores 1831
From Calamus
Scented Herbage of My Breast 1831
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 1833
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1833
From Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 1838
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life 1844
On the Beach at Night Alone 1846
From By the Roadside
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 1847
The Dalliance of the Eagles 1847
From Drum-Taps
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 1847
Bivouac on a Mountain Side 1848
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 1848