1861 (Walt Whitman Poems)
ARM'D year! year of the struggle!No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!Not you as some pale ...
ARM'D year! year of the struggle!No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!Not you as some pale ...
THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere, The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People, (Full well they ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here-and there beyond, it is looking, Down ...
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and traditions; ...
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes' ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
1 DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death-the call of my nearest lover, ...
1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any ...
1 YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also; Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ...
1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother-here's ...
1 WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day, Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching-I pause ...
AARM'D year! year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as ...
1 O sight of shame, and pain, and dole! O fearful thought-a convict Soul! RANG the refrain along the hall, ...
O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless-of cities fill'd with ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
1 IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded-of that ...
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
FAR hence, amid an isle of wondrous beauty, Crouching over a grave, an ancient, sorrowful mother, Once a queen-now lean ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
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