The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman
Chapter 1 * * *

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

Chapter 2 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 Ca?ons 39 Old War-Dreams 41 Delicate Cluster 42 To a Certain Civilian 43 Adieu to a Soldier 44 Long, Too Long America 45

Chapter 3 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

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