The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This little volume of poems, selected from the complete edition published by us, is issued with the approval of the Whitman Executors, T. B. Harned and Horace Traubel, holders of the copyright. With one exception each poem here printed is complete.

The Publishers.

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America	ii



I. POEMS OF WAR
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting	3
Beat! Beat! Drums!	4
City of Ships	6
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	7
Come Up From the Fields Father	9
A Twilight Song	12
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	14
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me	16
First O Songs for a Prelude	17
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	21
The Dying Veteran	31
The Wound-Dresser	32
Dirge for Two Veterans	37
From Far Dakota's CaÑons	39
Old War-Dreams	41
Delicate Cluster	42
To a Certain Civilian	43
Adieu to a Soldier	44
Long, Too Long America	45




II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR
Weave In, My Hardy Life	49
How Solemn as One by One	50
Spirit Whose Work Is Done	51
The Return of the Heroes	53
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	62
O Captain! My Captain!	76
Hush'd be the Camps To-day	78
Ashes of Soldiers	79
Pensive on her Dead Gazing	82




III. POEMS OF AMERICA
I Hear America Singing	87
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	88
Song of the Broad-axe	95
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun	113
Faces	116
O Magnet-South	118
By Broad Potomac's Shore	121
Our Old Feuillage!	122
A Broadway Pageant	131
The Prairie States	137




IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY
To Foreign Lands	141
To Thee Old Cause	142
For You O Democracy	143
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood	144
What Best I See in Thee	153
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days	154
The United States to Old World Critics	156
Years of the Modern	157
O Star of France	158
Thoughts	161
By Blue Ontario's Shore	164




Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps	191

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