Selected Poems

Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman’s best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass. Selections include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" and "O Captain! My Captain!"—all reprinted from an authoritative text. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.