The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman

Author: : Walt Whitman

Genre: Literature

The Americans, of all nations at any time upon the earth, have probably the fullest poetical Nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings, necessarily blind to particulars and details, magnificently moving in vast masses.

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1855, 1856, 1860, 1867

1871, 1876, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1888, 1891

BY WALT WHITMAN

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Chapter 2 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 Ca?ons 39

Old War-Dreams 41

Delicate Cluster 42

To a Certain Civilian 43

Adieu to a Soldier 44

Long, Too Long America 45

Chapter 3 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

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