The S4N Pocket Poems Series presents classic long poems and books of poetry as they were originally presented, free of interpretation and notes, and in an attractive size that can be carried and read anywhere.

Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island. The first edition of Leaves of Grass was published at the poet's own expense in 1855; the final edition appeared in 1892, from which this text of "Song of Myself" is taken.