Leaves of Grass

noun

1. a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.

Leaves of Grass

1. (1855) A collection of poems by Walt Whitman , written mainly in free verse . Published with revisions every few years until Whitman's death in 1892, it contains such well-known poems as “I Hear America Singing,” “Song of Myself,” and “ O Captain, My Captain .”