Walt Whitman: Selected Poems

edited by harold bloom

Introduction

I. Early Notebook Fragments of Song of Myself

"I am your voiceýIt was tied in youýIn me it begins to talk"

"I am the poet of reality"

"One touch of a tug of me has unhaltered all my senses but feeling"

"Afar in the sky was a nest"

"The crowds naked in the bath"

"In vain were nails driven through my hands"

"There is no word in any tongue"

II.

"Song of Myself"

III.

"I wander all night in my vision"

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

"As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life"

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

IV.

"Poets to Come"

"To the Garden the World"

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers"

"I Sing the Body Electric"

"A Woman Waits for Me"

"Spontaneous Me"

"Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals"

"O Hymen! O Hymenee!"

"I Am He that Aches with Love"

"Facing West from California's Shores"

"As Adam Early in the Morning"

V.

"In Paths Untrodden"

"Scented Herbage of My Breast"

"Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand"

"Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances"

"City of Orgies"

"I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing"

VI.

"On the Beach at Night"

"The World below the Brine"

"A Hand-Mirror"

"The Dalliance of Eagles"

"As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods"

"The Wound-Dresser"

"Reconciliation"

"There Was a Child Went Forth"

VII.

"Chanting the Square Deific"

"A Noiseless Patient Spider"

"O Living Always, Always Dying"

"The Last Invocation"

"A Clear Midnight"

"Good-Bye my Fancy"

"When the Full-Grown Poet Came"

"Good-Bye my Fancy!"

"Respondez! Respondez!"

Biographical Note

Note on the Texts

Notes

Index of Titles and First Lines