A Woman Waits For Me (Walt Whitman Poems)
A WOMAN waits for me--she contains all, nothing is lacking,Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the ...
A WOMAN waits for me--she contains all, nothing is lacking,Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the ...
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;I will ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
1 OR, from that Sea of Time, Spray, blown by the wind-a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells; (O little ...
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
THE prairie-grass dividing-its special odor breathing, I demand of it the spiritual corresponding, Demand the most copious and close companionship ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
BEHOLD this swarthy face-these gray eyes, This beard-the white wool, unclipt upon my neck, My brown hands, and the silent ...
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
AS consequent from store of summer rains, Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing, Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations, Or ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
NO labor-saving machine, Nor discovery have I made; Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
AN old man's thought of School; An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself cannot. Now only ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
ONE song, America, before I go, I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound, For thee-the Future. I'd sow ...
YOU just maturing youth! You male or female! Remember the organic compact of These States, Remember the pledge of the ...
1 COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone ...
WITH all thy gifts, America, (Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,) Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee-With these, and ...
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