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, ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
1 IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life, But here I twine the strands ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, With iron interlaced, composite, ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
I SAW old General at bay; (Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars;) ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers, (For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and ...
FACING west, from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards ...
BATHED in war's perfume-delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the ...
WANDERING at morn, Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts-thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
WE two-how long we were fool'd! Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes; We are Nature-long have we been ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your ...
JOY! shipmate-joy! (Pleas'd to my Soul at death I cry;) Our life is closed-our life begins; The long, long anchorage ...
1 IN cabin'd ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the ...
PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
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