Apostroph. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a ...
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
O SUN of real peace! O hastening light! O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for! O ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible ...
HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting: Here I shade and hide my thoughts-I myself do not ...
THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers, (For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and ...
THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States; Garner'd clusters of ages, ...
NATIVE moments! when you come upon me-Ah you are here now! Give me now libidinous joys only! Give me the ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb'd ...
AS I walk these broad, majestic days of peace, (For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend ...
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 ...
1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful ...
DID you ask dulcet rhymes from me? Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes? Did you find what ...
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