A Boston Ballad, 1854 (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here's a good place at the corner--I must stand and ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here's a good place at the corner--I must stand and ...
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I ...
ABOARD, at a ship's helm,A young steersman, steering with care.A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell--O a ...
A GLIMPSE, through an interstice caught,Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove,late of a ...
A LEAF for hand in hand!You natural persons old and young!You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs; I would sing ...
A LEAF for hand in hand! You natural persons old and young! You on the Mississippi, and on all the ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
SPIRIT whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours! Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets; Spirit ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
1 DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death-the call of my nearest lover, ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
WANDERING at morn, Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts-thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
1 YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also; Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ...
1 OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask, (All straighter, liker Masks rejected-this preferr'd,) This common curtain of the face, ...
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early; Here's a good place at the corner-I must stand ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark ...
IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a ...
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled ...
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