Index of Poems and Essays
“After an Interval,” 228
“After the Supper and Talk,” 230–231
“Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats,”
263n. 5
“Apostroph,” 126, 156
“The Artilleryman’s Vision,” 170–171, 252n. 54
“As at Thy Portals Also Death,” 229
“Ashes of Soldiers,” 187–188, 196
“As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life,” 24, 133,
139–142, 146, 234
“Assurances” (“Faith Poem”), 104–105
“As They Draw to a Close,” 225
“A Broadway Pageant,” 163
“Calamus” (group), 145–152, 241
“A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine,” 234–235
“The Centenarian’s Story,” 166
“Chanting the Square Dei¤c,” 266n. 63
“Children of Adam” (group), 142–145, 241
“City Photographs” (essays), 181
“Come Up from the Fields Father,” 179–180
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” 9, 16, 24, 110, 118,
125–126, 131
“Darest Thou Now, O Soul,” 10, 208, 269n. 6
“The Dead Emperor,” 272n. 46
“A Death Bouquet” (essay), 238
“Death of a Nature Lover,” 242–243
“Death’s Valley,” 242–243, 275n. 89
Democratic Vistas, 32, 36, 153, 213, 219, 221–225,
269n. 3
“Dirge for Two Veterans,” 187
Drum-Taps, 9–10, 24, 58, 161–205
“Eidólons,” 12–13, 152, 216, 226–227
“Eighteen Sixty-One,” 166–167
“The Eighteenth Presidency!” (essay), 57, 165
“Europe” (“Resurgemus”), 266n. 61
“Excelsior,” 7, 95
“Faces,” 84, 95, 177
“Fame’s Vanity,” 16
“Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love,” 149
“First O Songs for a Prelude,” 165
“From Dark Dakota’s Canyons,” 272n. 46
“Full of Life Now” (“Calamus 45”), 148–149,
261n. 41“Gliding O’er All,” 4
“Going Somewhere?” 248n. 45
“Good-Bye My Fancy,” 236–238
“Great Are the Myths,” 22, 97“Halcyon Days,” 232
How Solemn as One by One,” 186–187“In Former Songs,” 229
“Interpolations,” 272n. 46
“I Sing the Body Electric,” 130“Joy, Shipmate, Joy!” 211“The Last Invocation,” 228
Leaves of Grass: 1855 edition, 33–97; 1855 preface,
41, 95; 1856 edition, 23–24, 98–125, 239–240;
1860 edition, 126–160; 1867 edition, 207;
1872 edition, 211; 1872 preface, 10, 207–208,
213, 221; 1876 edition, 25, 227–228; 1876 pref-
ace, 11–12; 1881 edition, 226; 1888 (“Death-
bed”) edition, 236; 1888 preface, 230
“Live Oak, with Moss” (group), 145
“Lo, Victress on the Peaks,” 187
“Look Down Fair Moon,” 174
“The Love That Is Hereafter,” 15–16“A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the
Road Unknown,” 170–173
Memoranda During the War, 162, 183
“My Departure,” 16–17
“Myself and Mine,” 261n. 31
“The Mystic Trumpeter,” 142“Night on the Prairies,” 128
“A Noiseless Patient Spider,” 86, 209–210
November Boughs (group), 230
“Now Finalè to the Shore,” 211, 238Index / 293