Poems

Beginners HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals How dear and dreadful they are to the earth; How they inure to themselves […]

Beginning My Studies BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas’d me so much, The mere fact, consciousness–these forms–the power of motion, The least insect or animal–the […]

Behavior BEHAVIOR–fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself, Nature and the Soul expressed–America and freedom expressed–In it the finest art, In it pride, cleanliness, […]

Behold This Swarthy Face BEHOLD this swarthy face–these gray eyes, This beard–the white wool, unclipt upon my neck, My brown hands, and the silent manner of […]

Bivouac on a Mountain Side I see before me now a traveling army halting, Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer, […]

Bivouac On A Mountain Side I see before me now, a traveling army halting; Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of summer; […]

Brother Of All, With Generous Hand Brother of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o’er thy tomb, I and my Soul, A […]

By Broad Potomac’s Shore BY broad Potomac’s shore–again, old tongue! (Still uttering–still ejaculating–canst never cease this babble?) Again, old heart so gay–again to you, your sense, […]

By The Bivouac’s Fitful Flame BY the bivouac’s fitful flame, A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow;–but first I note, The tents of […]

Camps Of Green NOT alone those camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order’d forward, after a long march, Footsore and weary, soon as the light […]