Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892

by Walt Whitman

Sparkles from the Wheel

I can fully visualize what's going on in this poem.

To a Pupil

Is reform needed? is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.

Unfolded out of the Folds

Entitled "Poem of Women" in LG 1856. Became this title in LG 1871.

Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form’d of perfect body,

Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,

Unfolded out of the folds of the woman’s brain come all the folds of the man’s brain, duly obedient, Unfolded out of the justice of the woman all justice is unfolded, Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy; A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman; First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.

Kosmos

Applies to an individual possessing a systematic, inclusive harmony.

Of Him I Love Day and Night

A Noiseless Patient Spider

Now Precedent Songs, Farewell

Farewell, my boon companion.

Now precedent songs, farewell — by every name farewell,

“In Cabin’d Ships, or Thee Old Cause or Poets to Come Or Paumanok, Song of Myself, Calamus, or Adam, Or Beat! Beat! Drums! or To the Leaven’d Soil they Trod, Or Captain! My Captain! Kosmos, Quicksand Years, or Thoughts, Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood,” and many, many more unspecified, From fibre heart of mine — from throat and tongue — (My life’s hot pulsing blood,

Each song of mine — each utterance in the past — having its long, long history,

An Evening Lull

Winding down.