I heard that you ask’d for something to… And to define America, her athletic Dem… Therefore I send you my poems that you… wanted.

The touch of flame—the illuminating fire… O’er city, passion, sea—o’er prairie, mo… The airy, different, changing hues of al… Objects and groups, bearings, faces, rem… The calmer sight—the golden setting, cle…

Lo! THE unbounded sea! On its breast a Ship, spreading all her… Ship, carrying even her moonsails; The pennant is flying aloft, as she spee… speeds so stately—below, emulous waves p…

IN midnight sleep, of many a face of an… Of the look at first of the mortally wou… look; Of the dead on their backs, with arms ex… I dream, I dream, I dream.

No labor-saving machine, Nor discovery have I made; Nor will I be able to leave behind me a… hospital or library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage,…

For him I sing, I raise the present on the past, (As some perennial tree out of its roots… With time and space I him dilate and fu… To make himself by them the law unto him…

1 HUSH’D be the camps to-day; And, soldiers, let us drape our war-worn… And each, with musing soul retire, to ce… Our dear commander’s death. 2 No more for him life’s stormy conflic…

Welcome, Brazilian brother—thy ample pl… A loving hand—a smile from the north—a s… (Let the future care for itself, where i… Ours, ours the present throe, the democr… the faith;)

Singing my days, Singing the great achievements of the pr… Singing the strong light works of engine… Our modern wonders, (the antique pondero… In the Old World the east the Suez can…

A promise to California, Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and… Sojourning east a while longer, soon I… to teach robust American love; For I know very well that I and robust…

O sight of shame, and pain, and dole! O fearful thought—a convict Soul! Rang the refrain along the hall, the pri… Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven a… Pouring in floods of melody in tones so…

O living always, always dying! O the burials of me past and present, O me while I stride ahead, material, vi… O me, what I was for years, now dead, (… O to disengage myself from those corpses…

Here first the duties of to-day, the les… Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products… As of the building of some varied, vast,… Whence to arise inevitable in time, the… The solid-planted spires tall shooting t…

I met a seer, Passing the hues and objects of the worl… The fields of art and learning, pleasure… To glean eidolons. Put in thy chants said he,