A Woman Waits For Me (Walt Whitman Poems)
A WOMAN waits for me--she contains all, nothing is lacking,Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the ...
Walt Whitman Poems on Death & Dying (76 Poems)
A March In The Ranks, Hard-prest (Walt Whitman Poems)
A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown;A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the ...
A child said, What is the grass? (Walt Whitman Poems)
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
Night on The Prairies. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NIGHT on the prairies; The supper is over-the fire on the ground burns low; The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in ...
Apostroph. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
Carol of Words. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
Scented Herbage of My Breast. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SCENTED herbage of my breast, Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused best afterwards, Tomb-leaves, body-leaves, growing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Respondez! (Walt Whitman Poems)
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
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 ...
Dresser, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag!-long yet your road, and lined with bloody death! For ...
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 ...
Or from that Sea of Time. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 OR, from that Sea of Time, Spray, blown by the wind-a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells; (O little ...
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field. (Walt Whitman Poems)
VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night: When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side ...
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, ...
As I lay with Head in your Lap, Camerado. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AS I lay with my head in your lap, Camerado, The confession I made I resume-what I said to you ...
Shut Not Your Doors, &c. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed ...
Over the Carnage. (Walt Whitman Poems)
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd-Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love ...
As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields-or the harvester harvesting, I saw there too, ...
Mystic Trumpeter, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
Artilleryman’s Vision, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
Chanting the Square Deific. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
Two Rivulets. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TWO Rivulets side by side, Two blended, parallel, strolling tides, Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey. For the Eternal Ocean ...
In Former Songs. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life, But here I twine the strands ...
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. (Walt Whitman Poems)
PENSIVE, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All, Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering ...
Mediums. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the ...
A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown; A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in ...
Song of the Redwood-Tree. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...