Walt Whitman
1819–1892
United States, 1819–1892. He rewrote a single book, Leaves of Grass, his whole life, and with it gave English a free verse as wide as a country. A nurse in the Civil War, he sang the body and democracy without shame. His work is in the public domain.
- I Hear America Singing (1860)
- O Captain! My Captain! (1865)
- When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (1865)
- A Noiseless Patient Spider (1868)
- Miracles (1856)
- To a Stranger (1860)
- Beat! Beat! Drums! (1861)
- Come Up from the Fields Father (1865)
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! (1865)
- O Me! O Life! (1867)
- One's-Self I Sing (1867)