Walt Whitman

Publications

Poems that first appeared in newspapers and magazines, before he gathered them into his books.

• “A Child’s Reminiscence”New-York Saturday Press, December 24, 1859 · later “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”
• “Bardic Symbols”The Atlantic Monthly, April 1860 · later “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life”
• “O Captain! My Captain!”New-York Saturday Press, November 4, 1865 · then in Sequel to Drum-Taps
• “Whispers of Heavenly Death”The Broadway (London), October 1868 · among them “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
• “Proud Music of the Sea-Storm”The Atlantic Monthly, February 1869
• “The Mystic Trumpeter”The Kansas Magazine, February 1872
• “Song of the Redwood-Tree”Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, February 1874
• “Prayer of Columbus”Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, March 1874 · Read it there
• “The Voice of the Rain”Outing, August 1885 · offered first to Harper’s