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 ...
Walt Whitman Poems on Cities (58 Poems)
1861 (Walt Whitman Poems)
ARM'D year! year of the struggle!No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!Not you as some pale ...
A Song (Walt Whitman Poems)
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;I will ...
Italian Music in Dakota. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes' ...
Centenarian’s Story, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
A Broadway Pageant. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
In the New Garden in all the Parts. (Walt Whitman Poems)
IN the new garden, in all the parts, In cities now, modern, I wander, Though the second or third result, ...
American Feuillage. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor ...
City Dead-House, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
BY the City Dead-House, by the gate, As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause-for lo! ...
Mediums. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the ...
Rise, O Days. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep! Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I ...
Carol of Occupations. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
Hours Continuing Long. (Walt Whitman Poems)
HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted, Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating ...
Brother of All, with Generous Hand. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
Apostroph. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
Dirge for Two Veterans. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here-and there beyond, it is looking, Down ...
Sobbing of The Bells, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere, The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People, (Full well they ...
Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and traditions; ...
Now List to my Morning’s Romanza. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
Base of all Metaphysics, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AND now, gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base, and finale too, for ...
Excelsior. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHO has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther? And who has been just? For I would be ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
Warble for Lilac-Time. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time, Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake-and ...
Sing of the Banner at Day-Break. (Walt Whitman Poems)
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
From Pent-up Aching Rivers. (Walt Whitman Poems)
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
Song of the Exposition. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Prairie States, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, With iron interlaced, composite, ...