Great are the Myths. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 GREAT are the myths-I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve-I too look back and accept them; ...
1 GREAT are the myths-I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve-I too look back and accept them; ...
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb'd ...
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear ...
THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And ...
1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality-on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After ...
WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice-churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker-parents and offspring-merchant, clerk, porter ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love, O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, ...
WHAT best I see in thee, Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways, Ever undimm'd by time ...
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your ...
ARE you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning-I am surely far different from what you ...
ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! (What is this that frees me so in ...
TO oratists-to male or female, Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to use words. Are you full-lung'd and ...
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's ...
MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever, To stand the cold or heat-to take good aim with a gun-to sail a boat-to ...
I NEED no assurances-I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; I do not doubt that from ...
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend ...
WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money-these, as I rendezvous ...
YOU who celebrate bygones! Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races-the life that has exhibited itself; Who ...
THIS dust was once the Man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute-under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history ...
YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises-I see it parting away for more august dramas; I ...
1 BEAT! beat! drums!-Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows-through doors-burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
IN paths untrodden, In the growth by margins of pond-waters, Escaped from the life that exhibits itself, From all the ...
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