Walt Whitman (1819–1892) was an American poet from Long Island and Brooklyn whose long, unrhymed lines changed what poetry could sound like. His life’s work, Leaves of Grass, holds “Song of Myself,” “I Hear America Singing,” “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” and “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” along with his Civil War poems and his elegies for Abraham Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”
Read a fuller life sketch on our About Walt Whitman page. This Poetry Catalog archive gathers 200 poems by Whitman now live on the site—listed alphabetically below, with links to each full text. The texts follow the public domain Project Gutenberg edition of the final 1891–92 “deathbed” Leaves of Grass, and new poems are added to this list as they are published.
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Walt Whitman Poems
- Aboard At A Ship's Helm
- Adieu To A Soldier
- After The Sea-Ship
- Ages And Ages Returning At Intervals
- Among The Multitude
- Are You The New Person Drawn Toward Me?
- An Army Corps On The March
- The Artilleryman's Vision
- As Adam Early In The Morning
- As Consequent, Etc.
- As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life
- As I Lay With My Head In Your Lap Camerado
- As I Ponder'd In Silence
- As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
- The Base Of All Metaphysics
- Beat! Beat! Drums!
- Beautiful Women
- Beginners
- Beginning My Studies
- Behold This Swarthy Face
- Bivouac On A Mountain Side
- A Boston Ballad [1854]
- A Broadway Pageant
- By Blue Ontario's Shore
- By The Bivouac's Fitful Flame
- Cavalry Crossing A Ford
- The Centenarian's Story
- A Child's Amaze
- The City Dead-House
- City Of Orgies
- City Of Ships
- Come Up From The Fields Father
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- The Dalliance Of The Eagles
- Delicate Cluster
- Dirge For Two Veterans
- Earth, My Likeness
- Eidolons
- Eighteen Sixty-One
- Ethiopia Saluting The Colors
- Europe [The 72d And 73d Years Of These States]
- Facing West From California's Shores
- A Farm Picture
- Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!
- First O Songs For A Prelude
- For Him I Sing
- For You, O Democracy
- France [the 18th Year Of These States
- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like A Bird
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
- Full Of Life Now
- Germs
- Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun
- Gliding O'er All
- A Glimpse
- Gods
- A Hand-Mirror
- Hast Never Come To Thee An Hour
- Here The Frailest Leaves Of Me
- How Solemn As One By One [Washington City, 1865]
- Hush'd Be The Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865
- I Am He That Aches With Love
- I Dream'd In A Dream
- I Hear America Singing
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes Of The Organ
- I Saw In Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
- I Saw Old General At Bay
- I Sing The Body Electric
- I Sit And Look Out
- In Cabin'd Ships At Sea
- In Paths Untrodden
- A Leaf For Hand In Hand
- Lo, Victress On The Peaks
- Locations And Times
- Long, Too Long America
- Look Down Fair Moon
- A March In The Ranks Hard-Prest, And The Road Unknown
- Me Imperturbe
- Miracles
- Mother And Babe
- Myself And Mine
- Native Moments
- No Labor-Saving Machine
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- Not Heat Flames Up And Consumes
- Not Heaving From My Ribb'd Breast Only
- Not The Pilot
- Not Youth Pertains To Me
- O Captain! My Captain!
- O Hymen! O Hymenee!
- O Me! O Life!
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
- O You Whom I Often And Silently Come
- Of The Terrible Doubt Of Appearances
- Offerings
- Old Ireland
- On Journeys Through The States
- On The Beach At Night
- On The Beach At Night Alone
- Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City
- One Hour To Madness And Joy
- One's-Self I Sing
- Our Old Feuillage
- Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- Out Of The Rolling Ocean The Crowd
- Over The Carnage Rose Prophetic A Voice
- Patroling Barnegat
- Perfections
- Pioneers! O Pioneers!
- Poets To Come
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing
- A Promise To California
- Race Of Veterans
- Reconciliation
- Recorders Ages Hence
- The Return Of The Heroes
- Reversals
- Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deeps
- Roaming In Thought [After Reading Hegel]
- Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone
- The Runner
- Salut Au Monde!
- Savantism
- Scented Herbage Of My Breast
- The Ship Starting
- Shut Not Your Doors
- A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Gray And Dim
- Sometimes With One I Love
- Song For All Seas, All Ships
- A Song For Occupations
- A Song Of Joys
- Song Of Myself
- Song Of The Answerer
- Song Of The Banner At Daybreak
- Song Of The Broad-Axe
- Song Of The Exposition
- Song Of The Open Road
- Song Of The Redwood-Tree
- A Song Of The Rolling Earth
- Song Of The Universal
- Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
- Spontaneous Me
- Starting From Paumanok
- Still Though The One I Sing
- Tears
- That Shadow My Likeness
- There Was A Child Went Forth
- These I Singing In Spring
- This Compost
- This Dust Was Once The Man
- This Moment Yearning And Thoughtful
- Thou Reader
- Thought (Of Equality As If It)
- Thought (Of Justice As If Could)
- Thought (Of Obedience Faith Adhesiveness)
- Thoughts (Of Ownership As If One)
- To A Certain Cantatrice
- To A Certain Civilian
- To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire
- To A Historian
- To A President
- To A Stranger
- To A Western Boy
- To Foreign Lands
- To Old Age
- To Rich Givers
- To The East And To The West
- To The Garden The World
- To The Leaven'd Soil They Trod
- To The Man-of-War-Bird
- To The States
- To The States [To Identify The 16th, 17th, Or 18th Presidentiad]
- To Thee Old Cause
- To You (Stranger If You Passing Meet)
- To You (Whoever You Are I Fear)
- Trickle Drops
- Turn O Libertad
- Unnamed Land
- Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night
- Virginia–The West
- Visor'd
- We Two Boys Together Clinging
- We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
- What Place Is Besieged?
- What Think You I Take My Pen In Hand?
- When I Heard At The Close Of The Day
- When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer
- When I Peruse The Conquer'd Fame
- When I Read The Book
- When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now In Hand
- With Antecedents
- A Woman Waits For Me
- The World Below The Brine
- World Take Good Notice
- The Wound-Dresser
- Year Of Meteors [1859-60
- Year That Trembled And Reel'd Beneath Me
- Youth, Day, Old Age And Night