Rest comes not from the quantity but from the quality of sleep.

Poet, essayist and humanist                          

Selected Works:

Major Work:

Poetry:

Drum Taps - 1865
Good-Bye, My Fancy - 1891

Leaves of Grass - 1855
Leaves of Grass - 1856
Leaves of Grass - 1860
Leaves of Grass - 1867
Leaves of Grass - 1870
Leaves of Grass - 1876
Leaves of Grass - 1881
Leaves of Grass - 1891

Passage to India - 1870
Sequel to Drum Taps - 1865

Prose:

Complete Prose Works - 1892
Democratic Vistas - 1871
Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate - 1842
Memoranda During the War - 1875
November Boughs - 1888
Specimen Days and Collect - 1881

Aboard at a Ship's Helm
Adieu to a Soldier
After the Sea-Ship
After the Supper and Talk
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
All Is Truth
Among the Multitude
Are You the New Person Drawn Towards Me?
An Army Corps on the March
The Artilleryman's Vision
As at Thy Portals Also Death
As Consequent, Etc.
Ashes of Soldiers
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado
As I Ponder'd in Silence
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
Assurances
As The Time Draws Nigh
As They Draw to a Close
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
The Base of All Metaphysics
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Beginners
Beginning My Studies
Behold This Swarthy Face
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
A Boston Ballad - 1854
Broadway
A Broadway Pageant
By Blue Ontario's Shore
By Broad Potomac's Shore
By That Long Scan of Waves
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
Camps of Green
A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
The Centenarian's Story
Chanting the Square Deific
The City Dead-House
City of Orgies
City of Ships
Come Up from the Fields Father
The Commonplace
Continuities
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
The Dalliance of Eagles
Darest Thou Now O Soul
The Dead Tenor
Death of General Grant
Delicate Cluster
Dirge for Two Veterans
The Dying Veteran
Earth, My Likeness
Eidolons
Eighteen Sixty-One
Election Day, November, 1884
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
Europe - The 72nd and 73rd Years of These States
Excelsior
Faces
Facing West from California's Shores
First O Songs for a Prelude
For You, O Democracy
France - The 18th Year of these States
From Far Dakota's Canyons
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
Full of Life Now
Germs
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
A Glimpse
Gods
Going Somewhere
Good-Bye My Fancy!
Grand Is the Seen
Had I the Choice
Halcyon Days
A Hand-Mirror
How Solemn As One by One - Washington, 1865
Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day - May 4, 1865
I Hear America Singing
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
In Paths Untrodden
Interpolation Sounds
I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing
I Saw Old General at Bay
I Sing the Body Electric
I Sit and Look Out
Italian Music in Dakota
I Was Looking a Long While
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
Kosmos
Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
The Last Invocation
Laws for Creations
Life
L. of G.'s Purport
Long, Too Long America
Lo Victress on the Peaks
Mannahatta
A March in the Ranks Hard Prest, and the Road Unknown
Mediums
Me Imperturbe
Miracles
Mirages
My 71st Year
My Legacy
Myself and Mine
The Mystic Trumpeter
Native Moments
Night on the Prairies
A Noiseless Patient Spider
No Labor-Saving Machine
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Now Finale to the Shore
Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
O Captain! My Captain!
Of Him I Love Day and Night
Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearance
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
Old Age's Lambent Peaks
Old Chants
Old Ireland
Old Salt Kossabone
Old War Dreams
O Living Always, Always Dying
An Old Man's Thought of School
O Magnet-South
O Me! O Life!
On a Beach at Night
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
One Hour to Madness and Joy
On Journeys Through the States
On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
On the Beach at Night Alone
Osceola
O Star of France - 1870-71
Our Old Feuillage
Out from Behind This Mask
Outlines for a Tomb
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
The Ox-Tamer
The Pallid Wreath
Passage to India
Patroling Barnegat
A Paumanok Picture
Pensive and Faltering
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
A Persian Lesson
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Poets to Come
The Prairie-Grass Dividing
A Prairie Sunset
Prayer of Columbus
Proud Music of the Storm
Quicksand Years
Reconciliation
Recorders Ages Hence
Red Jacket - From Aloft
The Return of the Heroes
Reversals
A Riddle Song
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete
Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
Salut au Monde!
Savantism
Scented Herbage of My Breast
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
The Singer in the Prison
The Sleepers
Small the Theme of My Chant
So Long!
Song At Sunset
Song for All Seas, All Ships
A Song for Occupations
A Song of Joys
Song of Myself
Song of Prudence
Song of the Answerer
Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Song of the Broad-Axe
Song of the Exposition
Song of the Open Road
Song of the Redwood-Tree
A Song of the Rolling Earth
Song of the Universal
Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
Spain, 1873-74
Sparkles from the Wheel
Spirit That Form'd This Scene
Spirit Whose Work Is Done - Washington City, 1865
Spontaneous Me
Starting from Paumanok
Tears
Tests
Thanks in Old Age
That Music Always Round Me
There Was a Child Went Forth
These I Singing in Spring
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
This Compost
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
Thought

Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
To a Certain Cantatrice
To a Certain Civilian
To a Common Prostitute
To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire
To a Historian
To a Locomotive in Winter
To a Pupil
To a Stranger
To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
To Him That Was Crucified
To One Shortly to Die
To the East and to the West
To Thee Old Cause
To the Garden the World
To The Leaven'd Soil They Trod
To the Man-of-War-Bird
To the Sun-Set Breeze
To Think of Time
To Those Who've Fail'd
To You
Trickle Drops
Turn O Libertad
Twenty Years
A Twilight Song
The Unexpress'd
Unfolded Out of the Folds
Unnamed Land
Unseen Buds
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Virginia - The West
Vocalism
A Voice from Death
The Voice of the Rain
Wandering at Morn
Warble for Lilac-Time
Washington's Monument February, 1885
Weave in, My Hardy Life
We Two Boys Together Clinging
We Two, How Long We Were Fooled
What Ship Puzzled at Sea
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame
When I Read the Book
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
When the Full-Grown Poet Came
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
With Antecedents
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
A Woman Waits for Me
The World Below the Brine
The Wound-Dresser
Year of Meteors - 1859-60
Years of the Modern
Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours
Yonnondio
You Felons on Trial in Courts
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night.                                              

Mother Louisa Van Velsor
Father Walter Whitman, nine children.                                              

Walt Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemetery - 1892.