The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. A few typographical errors have been changed, and they are indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end of this book . America Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike, endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair'd in the adamant of Time. THE PATRIOTIC POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1918 Copyright, 1918, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian COPYRIGHT 1855, 1856, 1860, 1867 1871, 1876, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1888, 1891 BY WALT WHITMAN COPYRIGHT 1897 BY RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE THOMAS B. HARNED AND HORACE L. TRAUBEL LITERARY EXECUTORS OF WALT WHITMAN COPYRIGHT 1902 BY THOMAS B. HARNED AND HORACE L. TRAUBEL SURVIVING LITERARY EXECUTORS OF WALT WHITMAN ACKNOWLEDGMENT This little volume of poems, selected from the complete edition published by us, is issued with the approval of the Whitman Executors, T. B. Harned and Horace Traubel, holders of the copyright. With one exception each poem here printed is complete. The Publishers. PAGE America ii I. POEMS OF WAR Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 3 Beat! Beat! Drums! 4 City of Ships 6 A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 7 Come Up From the Fields Father 9 A Twilight Song 12 A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 14 Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 16 First O Songs for a Prelude 17 Song of the Banner at Daybreak 21 The Dying Veteran 31 The Wound-Dresser 32 Dirge for Two Veterans 37 From Far Dakota's Cañons 39 Old War-Dreams 41 Delicate Cluster 42 To a Certain Civilian 43 Adieu to a Soldier 44 Long, Too Long America 45 II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR Weave In, My Hardy Life 49 How Solemn as One by One 50 Spirit Whose Work Is Done 51 The Return of the Heroes 53 Memories of President Lincoln When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 62 O Captain! My Captain! 76 Hush'd be the Camps To-day 78 Ashes of Soldiers 79 Pensive on her Dead Gazing 82 III. POEMS OF AMERICA I Hear America Singing 87 Pioneers! O Pioneers! 88 Song of the Broad-axe…