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 ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag!-long yet your road, and lined with bloody death! For ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
SOLID, ironical, rolling orb! Master of all, and matter of fact!-at last I accept your terms; Bringing to practical, vulgar ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of ...
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse, Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind, Nor ...
YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises-I see it parting away for more august dramas; I ...
1 O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
1 IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded-of that ...
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your ...
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or ...
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