Drum-Taps
By Walt Whitman
Cover: The Veteran in a New Field (1865), oil on canvas by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1910)
Whitman's 1865 book of Civil War poems takes in the drums of the first call to arms, marches and bivouacs, and the hospital wards where he nursed wounded soldiers. It includes Beat! Beat! Drums!, Cavalry Crossing a Ford, The Wound-Dresser and Dirge for Two Veterans.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: First O Songs for a Prelude
- 2: Eighteen Sixty-One
- 3: Beat! Beat! Drums!
- 4: From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
- 5: Song of the Banner at Daybreak
- 6: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
- 7: Virginia--the West
- 8: City of Ships
- 9: The Centenarian's Story
- 10: Cavalry Crossing a Ford
- 11: Bivouac on a Mountain Side
- 12: An Army Corps on the March
- 13: By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
- 14: Come Up from the Fields Father
- 15: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
- 16: A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
- 17: A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
- 18: As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
- 19: Not the Pilot
- 20: Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
- 21: The Wound-Dresser
- 22: Long, Too Long America
- 23: Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
- 24: Dirge for Two Veterans
- 25: Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
- 26: I Saw Old General at Bay
- 27: The Artilleryman's Vision
- 28: Ethiopia Saluting the Colours
- 29: Not Youth Pertains to Me
- 30: Race of Veterans
- 31: World Take Good Notice
- 32: O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
- 33: Look Down Fair Moon
- 34: Reconciliation
- 35: How Solemn As One by One
- 36: As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
- 37: Delicate Cluster
- 38: To a Certain Civilian
- 39: Lo, Victress on the Peaks
- 40: Spirit Whose Work Is Done
- 41: Adieu to a Soldier
- 42: Turn O Libertad
- 43: To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod