America
By Walt Whitman

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Sources

Philadelphia: David Kay, 1891-'2"America" was first published in the the New York Herald on February 11, 1888. This copy of the text is taken from the final edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The text encoding was created and/or prepared by the Walt Whitman Archive and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The page image is from the copy of the first edition in the Albert Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Editorial Statements

Citation

Whitman, Walt. "America" . Leaves of Grass, David Kay, 1891-'2 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Whitman/whitman-america. Accessed: 2025-03-03T14:49:34.413Z

387 AMERICA. 1Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, 2All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, 3Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, 4Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, 5A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, 6Chair'd in the adamant of Time.