xvi • Contents

1186 The Emergence of American Poetic Voices 1189 Songs and BalIads

1190 Songs of the Slaves

1190	Lay Dis Body Down

1190	Nobody Knows the Ttouble I've Had

1191	Deep River

1191	Roll, Jordan, Roll

1192	Steal Away to Jesus

1192	Many Thousand Go

1192	Go Down, Moses

1194	Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

1194 Songs of White Communities

1194	John BlOwn's Body

1195	The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe)

1196	Pat Works on the Railway

1197	Shenandoah

1198	Clementine

1199	LifeIs a Toil

1200 William CulIen Bryant (1794-1878) 1201 Thanatopsis

1203 To a Waterfowl

1204 Abraham Lincoln

1204 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 1205 A Psalm of Life

1207 The Warning

1207 The Jewish Cemetery at Newport

1209 Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Leaves of Grass

1211	Preface to the 1855 Edition

1225	Song of Myself

1276	One's-Self! Sing

1277	To the Garden of the Wotld

1277	In Paths Unttodden

1278	When I Heard the Close of the Day

1279	Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

1284	When I Heard the Learn'd Asttonomer

1284	Beat' Beat! Drums'

1285	Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

1286	When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

1294	To a Locomotive in \\linter