Eidólons. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
1 OR, from that Sea of Time, Spray, blown by the wind-a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells; (O little ...
NIGHT on the prairies; The supper is over-the fire on the ground burns low; The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in ...
AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods, To the music of rustling leaves, kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,) I ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed ...
1 IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life, But here I twine the strands ...
YOU who celebrate bygones! Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races-the life that has exhibited itself; Who ...
1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother-here's ...
WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes, and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals, ...
A WOMAN waits for me-she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if ...
1 GREAT are the myths-I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve-I too look back and accept them; ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality-on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After ...
PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or ...
PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love, O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! (What is this that frees me so in ...
ONE'S-SELF I sing-a simple, separate Person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse. Of Physiology from top to toe ...
OF him I love day and night, I dream'd I heard he was dead; And I dream'd I went where ...
I NEED no assurances-I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; I do not doubt that from ...
O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless-of cities fill'd with ...
NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States; Garner'd clusters of ages, ...
IN paths untrodden, In the growth by margins of pond-waters, Escaped from the life that exhibits itself, From all the ...
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic-hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat-you, divine average! You, Earth ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, ...
ASHES of soldiers! As I muse, retrospective, murmuring a chant in thought, Lo! the war resumes-again to my sense your ...
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