This Halcyon Classics ebook contains more than 400 poems by American poet, writer, and journalist Walt Whitman. Whitman (1819-1892) continues to be one of the most influential American poets. He was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection LEAVES OF GRASS (included in this ebook), which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. The tone and content of many of the poems in LEAVES OF GRASS has led to much speculation about Whitman's sexual orientation. This collection also includes poems from Whitman's PATRIOTIC POEMS. Among the poems in LEAVES OF GRASS are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." This ebook is DRM free and has an active table of contents for easy navigation. This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.