Ethiopia Saluting the Colors. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet? ...
1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet? ...
THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers, (For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and ...
OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds, Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap'd-up skeletons of kings, Out of that ...
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
OTHERS may praise what they like; But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing, in art, or ...
I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church; Winds of autumn!-as I ...
FROM far Dakota's cañons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence, Haply to-day a ...
WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning, Scarlet, ...
AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields-or the harvester harvesting, I saw there too, ...
SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
FACING west, from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards ...
HE is wisest who has the most caution, He only wins who goes far enough. Any thing is as good ...
AND now, gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base, and finale too, for ...
1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled ...
THE prairie-grass dividing-its special odor breathing, I demand of it the spiritual corresponding, Demand the most copious and close companionship ...
WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege? Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, ...
1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here-and there beyond, it is looking, Down ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark ...
SPIRIT whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours! Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets; Spirit ...
1 DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death-the call of my nearest lover, ...
DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, With iron interlaced, composite, ...
HAST never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth? These eager ...
NOT heat flames up and consumes, Not sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air ...
I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these ...
WHO is now reading this? May-be one is now reading this who knows some wrong-doing of my past life, Or ...
TRICKLE, drops! my blue veins leaving! O drops of me! trickle, slow drops, Candid, from me falling-drip, bleeding drops, From ...
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