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Sample ## Take a look inside LEAVES OF GRASS By Walt Whitman Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning—as, first, I here and now Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name, Walt Whitman Contents BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS One’s-Self I Sing As I Ponder’d in Silence In Cabin’d Ships at Sea To Foreign Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidolons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys Through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged? Still Though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader BOOK II. BOOK III. BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Madness and Joy Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d O Hymen! O Hymenee! I Am He That Aches with Love Native Moments Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ Facing West from California’s Shores As Adam Early in the Morning BOOK V. CALAMUS Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand For You, O Democracy These I Singing in Spring Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances The Base of All Metaphysics Recorders… [ Sign in to read now ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fleaves-of-grass) The sample continues in the full work. 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