A Riddle Song (Walt Whitman Poems)
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I ...
ABOARD, at a ship's helm,A young steersman, steering with care.A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell--O a ...
BATHED in war's perfume-delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the ...
DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd ...
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
SCENTED herbage of my breast, Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused best afterwards, Tomb-leaves, body-leaves, growing ...
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
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, ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
NOT youth pertains to me, Nor delicatesse-I cannot beguile the time with talk; Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here-and there beyond, it is looking, Down ...
OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all-that we may be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope ...
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 TO conclude-I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart. ...
THEE for my recitative! Thee in the driving storm, even as now-the snow-the winter-day declining; Thee in thy panoply, thy ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse, Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind, Nor ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be ...
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in ...
FAR hence, amid an isle of wondrous beauty, Crouching over a grave, an ancient, sorrowful mother, Once a queen-now lean ...
, at a ship's helm, A young steersman, steering with care. A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing, ...
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