Poems

A Leaf For Hand In Hand A LEAF for hand in hand! You natural persons old and young! You on the Mississippi, and on all the […]

A March In The Ranks, Hard-prest A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown; A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in […]

A Noiseless Patient Spider A NOISELESS, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, […]

A Paumanok Picture TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still, Ten fishermen waiting–they discover a thick school of mossbonkers– they drop the join’d […]

A Proadway Pageant Over the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek’d two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive, Ride to-day […]

A Promise To California A PROMISE to California, Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon: Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward […]

A Riddle Song THAT which eludes this verse and any verse, Unheard by sharpest ear, unform’d in clearest eye or cunningest mind, Nor lore nor fame, […]

A Sight In Camp A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim, As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless, As slow I […]

A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless, […]

A Song Come, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon; I will make divine […]