Walt Whitman - Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

CONTENTS

SPECIMEN DAYS
A Happy Hours Command
Answer to an Insisting Friend
GenealogyVan Velsor and Whitman
The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries
The Maternal Homestead
Two Old Family Interiors
Paumanok, and my Life on it as Child and Young Man
My First ReadingLafayette
Printing OfficeOld Brooklyn
GrowthHealthWork
My Passion for Ferries
Broadway Sights
Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers
Plays and Operas too
Through Eight Years
Sources of CharacterResults1860
Opening of the Secession War
National Uprising and Volunteering
Contemptuous Feeling
Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861
The Stupor PassesSomething Else Begins
Down at the Front
After First Fredericksburg
Back to Washington
Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field
Hospital Scenes and Persons
Patent-Office Hospital
The White House by Moonlight
An Army Hospital Ward
A Connecticut Case
Two Brooklyn Boys
A Secesh Brave
The Wounded from Chancellorsville
A Night Battle over a Week Since
Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier
Some Specimen Cases
My Preparations for Visits
Ambulance Processions
Bad Woundsthe Young
The Most Inspiriting of all Wars Shows
Battle of Gettysburg
A Cavalry Camp
A New York Soldier
Home-Made Music
Abraham Lincoln
Heated Term
Soldiers and Talks
Death of a Wisconsin Officer
Hospitals Ensemble
A Silent Night Ramble
Spiritual Characters among the Soldiers
Cattle Droves about Washington
Hospital Perplexity
Down at the Front
Paying the Bounties
Rumors, Changes, Etc.
Virginia
Summer of 1864
A New Army Organization fit for America
Death of a Hero
Hospital ScenesIncidents
A Yankee Soldier
Union Prisoners South
Deserters
A Glimpse of Wars Hell-Scenes
GiftsMoneyDiscrimination
Items from My Note Books
A Case from Second Bull Run
Army SurgeonsAid Deficiencies
The Blue Everywhere
A Model Hospital
Boys in the Army
Burial of a Lady Nurse
Female Nurses for Soldiers
Southern Escapees
The Capitol by Gas-Light
The Inauguration
Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War
The WeatherDoes it Sympathize with These Times?
Inauguration Ball
Scene at the Capitol
A Yankee Antique
Wounds and Diseases
Death of President Lincoln
Shermans Army Jubilationits Sudden Stoppage
No Good Portrait of Lincoln
Releasd Union Prisoners from South
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
The Armies Returning
The Grand Review
Western Soldiers
A Soldier on Lincoln
Two Brothers, one South, one North
Some Sad Cases Yet
Calhouns Real Monument
Hospitals Closing
Typical Soldiers
Convulsiveness
Three Years Summd up
The Million Dead, too, Summd up
The Real War will never get in the Books
An Interregnum Paragraph
New Themes Enterd Upon
Entering a Long Farm-Lane
To the Spring and Brook
An Early Summer Reveille
Birds Migrating at Midnight
Bumble-Bees
Cedar-Apples
Summer Sights and Indolences
Sundown PerfumeQuail-Notesthe Hermit Thrush
A July Afternoon by the Pond
Locusts and Katy-Dids
The Lesson of a Tree
Autumn Side-Bits
The SkyDays and NightsHappiness
ColorsA Contrast
November 8, 76
Crows and Crows
A Winter-Day on the Sea-Beach
Sea-Shore Fancies
In Memory of Thomas Paine
A Two Hours Ice-Sail
Spring OverturesRecreations
One of the Human Kinks
An Afternoon Scene
The Gates Opening
The Common Earth, the Soil
Birds and Birds and Birds
Full-Starrd Nights
Mulleins and Mulleins
Distant Sounds
A Sun-BathNakedness
The Oaks and I
A Quintette
The First FrostMems
Three Young Mens Deaths
February Days
A Meadow Lark
Sundown Lights
Thoughts Under an OakA Dream
Clover and Hay Perfume
An Unknown
Bird Whistling
Horse-Mint
Three of Us
Death of William Cullen Bryant
Jaunt up the Hudson
Happiness and Raspberries
A Specimen Tramp Family
Manhattan from the Bay
Human and Heroic New York
Hours for the Soul
Straw-Colord and other Psyches
A Night Remembrance
Wild Flowers
A Civility Too Long Neglected
Delaware RiverDays and Nights
Scenes on Ferry and RiverLast Winters Nights
The First Spring Day on Chestnut Street
Up the Hudson to Ulster County
Days at J.B.sTurf FiresSpring Songs
Meeting a Hermit
An Ulster County Waterfall
Walter Dumont and his Medal
Hudson River Sights
Two City Areas Certain Hours
Central Park Walks and Talks
A Fine Afternoon, 4 to 6
Departing of the Big Steamers
Two Hours on the Minnesota
Mature Summer Days and Night
Exposition BuildingNew City HallRiver-Trip
Swallows on the River
Begin a Long Jaunt West
In the Sleeper
Missouri State
Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas
The Prairies(and an Undeliverd Speech)
On to DenverA Frontier Incident
An Hour on Kenosha Summit
An Egotistical Find
New ScenesNew Joys
Steam-Power, Telegraphs, Etc.
Americas Back-Bone
The Parks
Art Features
Denver Impressions
I Turn South and then East Again
Unfulfilld Wantsthe Arkansas River
A Silent Little Followerthe Coreopsis
The Prairies and Great Plains in Poetry
The Spanish PeaksEvening on the Plains
Americas Characteristic Landscape
Earths Most Important Stream
Prairie Analogiesthe Tree Question
Mississippi Valley Literature
An Interviewers Item
The Women of the West
The Silent General
President Hayess Speeches
St. Louis Memoranda
Nights on the Mississippi
Upon our Own Land
Edgar Poes Significance
Beethovens Septette
A Hint of Wild Nature
Loafing in the Woods
A Contralto Voice
Seeing Niagara to Advantage
Jaunting to Canada
Sunday with the Insane
Reminiscence of Elias Hicks
Grand Native Growth
A Zollverein between the U. S. and Canada
The St. Lawrence Line
The Savage Saguenay
Capes Eternity and Trinity
Chicoutimi, and Ha-ha Bay
The InhabitantsGood Living
Cedar-Plums LikeNames
Death of Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle from American Points of View
A Couple of Old FriendsA Coleridge Bit
A Weeks Visit to Boston
The Boston of To-Day
My Tribute to Four Poets
Millets PicturesLast Items
Birdsand a Caution
Samples of my Common-Place Book
My Native Sand and Salt Once More
Hot Weather New York
Ousters Last Rally
Some Old AcquaintancesMemories
A Discovery of Old Age
A Visit, at the Last, to R. W. Emerson
Other Concord Notations
Boston CommonMore of Emerson
An Ossianic NightDearest Friends
Only a New Ferry Boat
Death of Longfellow
Starting Newspapers
The Great Unrest of which We are Part
By Emersons Grave
At Present WritingPersonal
After Trying a Certain Book
Final ConfessionsLiterary Tests
Nature and DemocracyMorality

COLLECT

ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS

DEMOCRATIC VISTAS

ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION

PREFACES TO LEAVES OF GRASS
Preface, 1855, to first issue of Leaves of Grass
Preface, 1872, to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Preface, 1876, to L. of G. and Two Rivulets
POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICASHAKESPEARETHE FUTURE

A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE
DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

TWO LETTERS

NOTES LEFT OVER
Nationality (and Yet)
Emersons Books (the Shadows of Them)
Ventures, on an Old Theme
British Literature
Darwinism (then Furthermore)
Society
The Tramp and Strike Questions
Democracy in the New World
Foundation Stagesthen Others
General Suffrage, Elections, Etc.
Who Gets the Plunder?
Friendship (the Real Article)
Lacks and Wants Yet
Rulers Strictly Out of the Masses