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Oct 18, 2021 · Download or stream the first edition of Whitman's poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, published in 1855. The book is in the public domain and available in PDF format.
A digital reproduction of the first edition of Walt Whitman's poetry collection, published in 1855. The web page contains the full text of the book, as well as an introduction and addenda by Thomas Bird Mosher, the printer of the facsimile edition.
- INSCRIPTIONS. One’s-Self I Sing. One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing.
- Starting from Paumanok. 1 Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring, Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess, Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy, Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara, Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull, Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze, Having studied the mocking-bird’s tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk, And heard at dawn the unrivall’d one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
- Song of Myself. 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
- CHILDREN OF ADAM. To the Garden the World. To the garden the world anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous, Existing I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present, content with the past, By my side or back of me Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.
Download or read online the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the seminal collection of poems by American poet Walt Whitman. The PDF includes the preface, the table of contents, and the full text of the poems.
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Leaves of Grass and its impact on American Literature; Free EBooks. Leaves of Grass; Song of Myself; Manuscripts
Jun 14, 2010 · Subject: Into the Weeds of Grass. I guess this will suffice to know if 1855 edition is a good one. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_21.html. Original edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855.
Download a public domain PDF of Walt Whitman's 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, a collection of free-verse poems celebrating nature, humanity, and the self. Read the full text of Song of Myself, one of the most famous poems in American literature.
