A Proadway Pageant (Walt Whitman Poems)
OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come,Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,Ride to-day ...
OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come,Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,Ride to-day ...
A WOMAN waits for me--she contains all, nothing is lacking,Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;I will ...
A GLIMPSE, through an interstice caught,Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove,late of a ...
A PROMISE to California,Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward ...
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night: When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side ...
1 IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life, But here I twine the strands ...
A PROMISE to California, Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon: Sojourning east a while longer, soon I ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
YOU felons on trial in courts; You convicts in prison-cells-you sentenced assassins, chain'd and hand-cuff'd with iron; Who am I, ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers, (For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and ...
I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church; Winds of autumn!-as I ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
1 DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death-the call of my nearest lover, ...
YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs; I would sing ...
WHO has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther? And who has been just? For I would be ...
TO the East and to the West; To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania, To the Kanadian ...
RECORDERS ages hence! Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior-I will tell you what to say of ...
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any ...
BEHOLD this swarthy face-these gray eyes, This beard-the white wool, unclipt upon my neck, My brown hands, and the silent ...
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
FAST-ANCHOR'D, eternal, O love! O woman I love! O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought ...
NOT heat flames up and consumes, Not sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air ...
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
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