I will Take an Egg Out of the Robin’s Nest. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I WILL take an egg out of the robin's nest in the orchard, I will take a branch of gooseberries ...
I WILL take an egg out of the robin's nest in the orchard, I will take a branch of gooseberries ...
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible ...
BATHED in war's perfume-delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the ...
NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back, and many times baffled; Not ...
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag!-long yet your road, and lined with bloody death! For ...
I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting; Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of ...
IN the new garden, in all the parts, In cities now, modern, I wander, Though the second or third result, ...
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor ...
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and traditions; ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
FROM Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird, Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all; To ...
THE world below the brine; Forests at the bottom of the sea-the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers ...
HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted, Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating ...
WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record? The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the ...
ONE sweeps by, attended by an immense train, All emblematic of peace-not a soldier or menial among them. One sweeps ...
YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs; I would sing ...
THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon! Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand, The sibilant near sea ...
ON my northwest coast in the midst of the night, a fishermen's group stands watching; Out on the lake, that ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
WITH its cloud of skirmishers in advance, With now the sound of a single shot, snapping like a whip, and ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the ...
WANDERING at morn, Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts-thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
AGES and ages, returning at intervals, Undestroy'd, wandering immortal, Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet, I, chanter ...
WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running, Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering, Shouts ...
AS consequent from store of summer rains, Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing, Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations, Or ...
1 OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask, (All straighter, liker Masks rejected-this preferr'd,) This common curtain of the face, ...
1 I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. 2 I say nourish a ...
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