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 Faces (54 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 Sight In Camp (Walt Whitman Poems)
A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I ...
A Hand-Mirror (Walt Whitman Poems)
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)Outside fair costume--within ashes and filth,No ...
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 ...
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, ...
O Star of France. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
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 ...
Poets to Come. (Walt Whitman Poems)
POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Out from Behind this Mask. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask, (All straighter, liker Masks rejected-this preferr'd,) This common curtain of the face, ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Solemn as One by One. (Walt Whitman Poems)
HOW solemn, as one by one, As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty-as the men file by where I ...
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 ...
Prairie-Grass Dividing, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THE prairie-grass dividing-its special odor breathing, I demand of it the spiritual corresponding, Demand the most copious and close companionship ...
Says. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. 2 I say nourish a ...
To the Reader at Parting. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NOW, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhile-Here! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you ...
When I heard at the Close of the Day. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
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 ...
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 ...
at Weeping Face. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHAT weeping face is that looking from the window? Why does it stream those sorrowful tears? Is it for some ...
Spain 1873-’74. (Walt Whitman Poems)
OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds, Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap'd-up skeletons of kings, Out of that ...
I Sing the Body Electric. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
Visor’d. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A MASK-a perpetual natural disguiser of herself, Concealing her face, concealing her form, Changes and transformations every hour, every moment, ...
Faces. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...