So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death

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“Of Him I Love Day and Night,” 147
“Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances,” 146
“Old War Dreams,” 187
“O Living Always, Always Dying,” 159–160
“O Me, O Life,” 263n. 5
“On the Beach at Night Alone” (“Clef Poem”),
108–110
“Osceola,” 233
“Outlines for a Tomb,” 272n. 46
“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” 23,
130, 133–139, 151, 193


“Passage to India,” 10, 24–25, 158, 211–216,
270nn. 14, 15
“Pensive and Faltering,” 208
“Pensive on Her Dead Gazing,” 186
“Pioneers! O Pioneers!” 163
“Prayer of Columbus,” 24–25, 213, 216, 218–222
“Proud Music of the Storm,” 211


“Reconciliation,” 188
“Reuben’s Last Wish” (tale), 247n. 23
“Revenge and Requital” (tale), 17–18
“Roaming in Thought,” 271n. 39


“Salut au Monde!” 110–116
“Sands at Seventy” (group), 230
“Scented Herbage of My Breast,” 38, 62,
150, 186
“Shut Not Your Doors,” 163
“A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and
Dim,” 176–178
“A Sketch” (tale), 16
“The Sleepers,” 88–97, 134, 205
“So Long!” 24, 76, 152–160
“A Song for Occupations,” 77–78
“A Song of Joys,” 130–132
“Song of Myself,” 6, 8–9, 29, 31, 33–76, 79, 86,
102, 111, 129, 131, 155, 158, 173, 178, 204, 250n. 22
“Song of Prudence,” 107–108
“Song of the Answerer,” 6–7, 158
“Song of the Banner at Daybreak,” 165–166
“Song of the Broad-Axe,” 57, 106–107, 153, 165
“Song of the Open Road,” 23, 73–74, 106, 110,
116–118, 129
“Song of the Redwood-Tree,” 216–218


“A Song of the Rolling Earth,” 107–108
“Song of the Universal,” 223–225
Specimen Days, 25, 81, 162, 183, 252n. 56
“Spirit that Form’d this Scene,” 163, 267n. 68
“Spirit Whose Work Is Done,” 185–186
“Starting from Paumanok,” 9, 129–130, 143, 152,
154, 259n. 43

“There Was a Child Went Forth,” 97
“These I Singing in Spring,” 26, 149–150
“Think of the Soul,” 105–106
“This Compost,” 98–102, 113, 186, 193, 196
“This Dust Was Once the Man,” 191
“Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling,” 229
“Time to Come,” 16
“To Him That Was Cruci¤ed,” 62, 178, 262n. 63
“Tomb Blossoms,” 14–15
“To Old Age,” 153
“To One Shortly to Die,” 131
“To the Garden the World,” 143–144
“To the Leaven’d Soil they Trod,” 186
“To the Sun-Set Breeze,” 235, 238
“To Think of Time,” 9, 22, 43, 55, 78–88, 98, 132–
133, 193, 252n. 56,
“To You (whoever you are),” 103–104
“Twilight,” 197–198
“Two Rivulets,” 229

“Unnamed Lands,” 127–128

“Vigil Strange I Kept in the Field One Night,”
173–176
“A Voice from Death,” 233–234

“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,”
188–205
“Whispers of Heavenly Death,” 10, 208
“Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now in
Hand,” 147–148
“Who Learns My Lesson Complete,” 97
“A Woman Waits for Me,” 144
“The World Below the Brine,” 128
“The Wound-Dresser,” 180–185

“Yonondio,” 217

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