The sea is a continual miracle : sea poems and other writings / by Walt Whitman ; edited by Jeffrey Yang.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The greatest sea poems and prose of Walt Whitman.

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).

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