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 ...
WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time, Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake-and ...
SMALL is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatest-namely, One's-Self-that wondrous thing a simple, separate person. That, for ...
THIS day, O Soul, I give you a wondrous mirror; Long in the dark, in tarnish and cloud it lay-But ...
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
I WILL take an egg out of the robin's nest in the orchard, I will take a branch of gooseberries ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag!-long yet your road, and lined with bloody death! For ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd-Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love ...
WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning, Scarlet, ...
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible ...
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, With iron interlaced, composite, ...
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
FROM Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird, Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all; To ...
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy! Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift; Praises and presents came, and nourishing food-till ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
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