CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DRUM-TAPS FIRST O SONGS FOR A PRELUDE. EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE. BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK. RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. VIRGINIA—THE WEST. CITY OF SHIPS. THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY. CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD. BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE. AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH. BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME. COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER. VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT. A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST, AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN. A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM. AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS. NOT THE PILOT. YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME. THE WOUND-DRESSER. LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA. GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS. OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE. I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY. THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION. ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLOURS. NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME. RACE OF VETERANS. WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE. O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY. LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON. RECONCILIATION. HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE. AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO. DELICATE CLUSTER. TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN. LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS. SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE. ADIEU TO A SOLDIER. TURN O LIBERTAD. TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD.
CONTENTS 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 95 Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 113 Faces 116 O Magnet-South 118 By Broad Potomac's Shore 121 Our Old Feuillage! 122 A Broadway Pageant 131 The Prairie States 137 IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY To Foreign Lands 141 To Thee Old Cause 142 For You O Democracy 143 Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 144 What Best I See in Thee 153 As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 154 The United States to Old World Critics 156 Years of the Modern 157 O Star of France 158 Thoughts 161 By Blue Ontario's Shore 164 Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 191