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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I. POEMS OF WAR

Thick-Sprinkled Bunting

Beat! Beat! Drums!

City of Ships

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown

Come Up From the Fields Father

A Twilight Song

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me

First O Songs for a Prelude

Song of the Banner at Daybreak

The Dying Veteran

The Wound-Dresser

Dirge for Two Veterans

From Far Dakota's Cañons

Old War-Dreams

Delicate Cluster

To a Certain Civilian

Adieu to a Soldier

Long, Too Long America

II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR

Weave In, My Hardy Life

How Solemn as One by One

Spirit Whose Work Is Done

The Return of the Heroes

Memories of President Lincoln

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

O Captain! My Captain!

Hush'd be the Camps To-day

Ashes of Soldiers

Pensive on her Dead Gazing

III. POEMS OF AMERICA

I Hear America Singing

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

Song of the Broad-axe

Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

Faces

O Magnet-South

By Broad Potomac's Shore

Our Old Feuillage!

A Broadway Pageant

The Prairie States

IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY

To Foreign Lands

To Thee Old Cause

For You O Democracy

Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood

What Best I See in Thee

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

The United States to Old World Critics

Years of the Modern

O Star of France

Thoughts

By Blue Ontario's Shore

Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps