A child said, What is the grass? (Walt Whitman Poems)
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here-and there beyond, it is looking, Down ...
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
PENSIVE, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All, Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any ...
DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd ...
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 ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd-Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And ...
SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend ...
1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city, How ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
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 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; The sleeping mother and babe-hush'd, I study them long ...
WHY! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk ...
1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother-here's ...
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
1 GREAT are the myths-I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve-I too look back and accept them; ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
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