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 ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
A noiseless, patient spider,I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,It ...
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...
WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time, Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake-and ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
1 OR, from that Sea of Time, Spray, blown by the wind-a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells; (O little ...
THIS day, O Soul, I give you a wondrous mirror; Long in the dark, in tarnish and cloud it lay-But ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
HOW solemn, as one by one, As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty-as the men file by where I ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
NOT heat flames up and consumes, Not sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air ...
BY the City Dead-House, by the gate, As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause-for lo! ...
AS consequent from store of summer rains, Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing, Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations, Or ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
1 RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep! Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I ...
1 AT the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house, From the clasp of the knitted locks-from ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask, (All straighter, liker Masks rejected-this preferr'd,) This common curtain of the face, ...
WANDERING at morn, Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts-thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
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