A child said, What is the grass? (Walt Whitman Poems)
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any ...
DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd ...
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 ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd-Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
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 ...
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
PENSIVE, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All, Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; The sleeping mother and babe-hush'd, I study them long ...
WHY! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk ...
1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother-here's ...
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
1 GREAT are the myths-I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve-I too look back and accept them; ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality-on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After ...
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear ...
THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
AS at thy portals also death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my mother, to the divine ...
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
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