Song of the Redwood-Tree. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time, Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake-and ...
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor ...
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon! Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand, The sibilant near sea ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes' ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed ...
THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the ...
ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all, or mistress of all-aplomb in the midst of irrational things, ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
GLIDING o'er all, through all, Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of ...
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
PENSIVE, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All, Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering ...
AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods, To the music of rustling leaves, kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,) I ...
FOR him I sing, (As some perennial tree, out of its roots, the present on the past:) With time and ...
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic-hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat-you, divine average! You, Earth ...
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 ...
ONE song, America, before I go, I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound, For thee-the Future. I'd sow ...
1 IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded-of that ...
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