and elsewhere not infrequently to dactylic hexameters and pentameters:

"Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river! . . .
Far-swooping, elbowed earth! rich, apple-blossomed earth."

Indeed, Whitman's most popular poem, _My Captain_, written after the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, differs little in form from ordinary
verse, as a stanza of it will show:

"My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won.
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck, my captain lies
Fallen, cold and dead."

This is from _Drum Taps_, a volume of poems of the civil war. Whitman
has also written prose having much the same quality as his poetry:
_Democratic Vistas_, _Memoranda of the Civil War_, and, more recently,
_Specimen Days_. His residence of late years has been at Camden, New
Jersey, where a centennial edition of his writings was published in
1876.

1. William Cullen Bryant. _Thanatopsis_. _To a Water-fowl_. _Green
River_. _Hymn to the North Star_. _A Forest Hymn_. "_O Fairest of
the Rural Maids_." _June_. _The Death of the Flowers_. _The Evening
Wind_. _The Battle-Field_. _The Planting of the Apple-tree_. _The
Flood of Years_.

2. John Greenleaf Whittier. _Cassandra Southwick_. _The New Wife and
the Old_. _The Virginia Slave Mother_. _Randolph of Roanoke_.
_Barclay of Ury_. _The Witch of Wenham_. _Skipper Ireson's Ride_.
_Marguerite_. _Maud Muller_. _Telling the Bees_. _My Playmate_.
_Barbara Frietchie_. _Ichabod_. _Laus Deo_. _Snow-Bound_.

3. Edgar Allan Poe. _The Raven_. _The Bells_. _Israfel_. _Ulalume_.
_To Helen_. _The City in the Sea_. _Annabel Lee_. _To One in
Paradise_. _The Sleeper_. _The Valley of Unrest_. _The Fall of the
House of Usher_. _Ligeia_. _William Wilson_. _The Cask of
Amontillado_. _The Assignation_. _The Masque of the Red Death_.
_Narrative of A. Gordon Pym_.

4. N. P. Willis. _Select Prose Writings_. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. 1886.

5. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_. _Oldtown Folks_.

6. W. G. Simms, _The Partisan_. _The Yemassee_.

7. Bayard Taylor. _A Bacchic Ode_. _Hylas_. _Kubleh_. _The Soldier
and the Pard_. _Sicilian Wine_. _Taur