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 ...
OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all-that we may be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope ...
HOW solemn, as one by one, As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty-as the men file by where I ...
WHO has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther? And who has been just? For I would be ...
RECORDERS ages hence! Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior-I will tell you what to say of ...
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
O BITTER sprig! Confession sprig! In the bouquet I give you place also-I bind you in, Proceeding no further till, ...
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
NOT heat flames up and consumes, Not sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers, (For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and ...
TO the East and to the West; To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania, To the Kanadian ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted, Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating ...
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
AND now, gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base, and finale too, for ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record? The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a ...
THE business man, the acquirer vast, After assiduous years, surveying results, preparing for departure, Devises houses and lands to his ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
ARE you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning-I am surely far different from what you ...
MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever, To stand the cold or heat-to take good aim with a gun-to sail a boat-to ...
SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend ...
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 ...
IS reform needed? Is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish ...
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