The sea is a continual miracle : sea poems and other writings /

The greatest sea poems and prose of Walt Whitman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Author)
Other Authors: Yang, Jeffrey (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover : University Press of New England, [2017]
Series:Seafaring America
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ocean (1842)
  • Mississippi at Midnight (1848)
  • From Leaves of Grass (1855)
  • From Leaves of Grass (1856)
  • 3. from Poem of Salutation
  • 11. Sun-Down Poem
  • 24. Poem of Perfect Miracles
  • 28. Bunch Poem
  • 31. Poem of The Sayers of The Words of The Earth
  • From Leaves of Grass (1860
  • 61)
  • From Proto-Leaf
  • From Chants Democratic and Native American
  • Apostroph
  • From Leaves of Grass
  • 4. "Something startles me"
  • Poem of Joys
  • Word Out of the Sea
  • From Enfans d'Adam
  • 7. "You and I
  • what the earth is, we are"
  • 10. "Inquiring, tireless, seeking that yet unfound"
  • From Calamus
  • 3. "Whoever you are holding me now in hand"
  • 4. "These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers"
  • 11. "When I heard at the close of the day"
  • 13. "Calamus taste"
  • 14. "Not heat flames up and consumes"
  • 19. "Mind you the timid models of the rest"
  • 26. "We two boys together clinging"
  • 31. "What ship, puzzled at sea"
  • 32. "What think you I take my pen in hand to record?"
  • 37. "A leaf for hand in hand!"
  • Longings for Home
  • From Messenger Leaves
  • To Old Age
  • Mannahatta
  • From Drum-Taps (1865) and Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd and Other Poems (1865
  • 66)
  • Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
  • City of Ships
  • Torch
  • Ship
  • Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd
  • World, Take Good Notice
  • From When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd
  • O Captain! My Captain!
  • From Leaves of Grass (1867)
  • From Starting from Paumanok
  • From Children of Adam
  • From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
  • Facing West from California's Shores
  • From Song of the Open Road
  • Respondez!
  • As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
  • From Songs Before Parting
  • From As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores
  • Song at Sunset
  • From Leaves of Grass (1871
  • 72), Passage to India (1871), and As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872)
  • From Inscriptions
  • In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
  • From Songs of Insurrection
  • France, the 18th Year of These States
  • From Passage to India
  • Passage to India
  • From Whispers of Heavenly Death
  • Whispers of Heavenly Death
  • From Leaves of Grass
  • Warble for Lilac-Time
  • From Now Finale to the Shore
  • Now Finale to the Shore
  • Untold Want
  • Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
  • From As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
  • As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
  • O Star of France!
  • By Broad Potomac's Shore
  • From Leaves of Grass (1876) and Two Rivulets (1876)
  • Beauty of the Ship
  • From Two Rivulets
  • Two Rivulets
  • Or from That Sea of Time
  • Eidolons
  • Spain, 1873
  • 74
  • Prayer of Columbus
  • From Leaves of Grass (1881
  • 82)
  • Sea-Drift
  • Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
  • As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
  • Tears
  • To the Man-of-War Bird
  • Aboard at a Ship's Helm
  • On the Beach at Night
  • World Below the Brine
  • On the Beach at Night Alone
  • Song for All Seas, All Ships
  • Patroling Barnegat
  • After the Sea-Ship
  • From Autumn Rivulets
  • As Consequent, Etc.
  • From Specimen Days & Collect (1882
  • 83)
  • Paumanok, and My Life on It as Child and Young Man
  • My Passion for Ferries
  • Interregnum Paragraph
  • To the Spring and the Brook
  • July Afternoon by the Pond
  • From Autumn Side-Bits
  • Winter Day on the Sea-Beach
  • Sea-Shore Fancies
  • Two-Hours' Ice-Sail
  • Afternoon Scene
  • Sun-Bath
  • Nakedness
  • Jaunt Up the Hudson
  • Manhattan from the Bay
  • Night Remembrance
  • Delaware River
  • Days and Nights
  • Scenes on Ferry and River
  • Last Winter's Nights
  • Up the Hudson to Ulster County
  • Ulster County Waterfall
  • Hudson River Sights
  • Departing of the Big Steamers
  • Swallows on the River
  • New Senses
  • New Joys
  • Unfulfilled Wants
  • the Arkansas River
  • Earth's Most Important Stream
  • Nights on the Mississippi
  • Hint of Wild Nature
  • Seeing Niagara to Advantage
  • St. Lawrence Line
  • Savage Saguenay
  • Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha Bay
  • My Native Sand and Salt Once More
  • Ossianic Night
  • Dearest Friends
  • Only a New Ferry Boat
  • Great Unrest of Which We Are a Part
  • From Leaves of Grass (1891
  • 92)
  • From Sands at Seventy
  • Paumanok
  • From Montauk Point
  • Font of Type
  • Fancies at Navesink
  • (The Pilot in the Mist
  • Had I the Choice
  • You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
  • Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
  • And Yet Not You Alone
  • Proudly the Flood Comes In
  • By That Long Scan of Waves
  • Then Last of All.)
  • With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
  • Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
  • Yonnondio
  • Voice of the Rain
  • Twenty Years
  • Dismantled Ship
  • From Good-Bye My Fancy
  • Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
  • Lingering Last Drops
  • Ended Day
  • Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's
  • Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
  • To the Sun-set Breeze
  • Twilight Song
  • Voice from Death
  • Persian Lesson
  • Grand Is the Seen
  • From A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
  • "There is a river ..." (Date unknown).