The collection represents the celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity and praises nature and the individual human's role in it. Rather than focusing on religious or spiritual matters, Leaves of Grass focuses primarily on the body and the material world. With few exceptions, its poems do not rhyme or follow standard rules for meter and line length.
This volume contains all 14 sections contained in the 1892 deathbed edition:
Inscriptions
Children of Adam
Calamus
Birds of Passage
Sea-Drift
By the Roadside
Drum-Taps
Memories of President Lincoln
Autumn Rivulets
Whispers of Heavenly Death
From Noon to Starry Night
Songs of Parting
First Annex: Sands at Seventy
Second Annex: Good-bye My Fancy
This volume includes such classics as:
"Song of Myself"
"I Sing the Body Electric"
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
"I Hear America Singing"