A Riddle Song (Walt Whitman Poems)
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...
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, ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night: When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side ...
1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
1 DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death-the call of my nearest lover, ...
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above ...
TWO Rivulets side by side, Two blended, parallel, strolling tides, Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey. For the Eternal Ocean ...
YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs; I would sing ...
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all, or mistress of all-aplomb in the midst of irrational things, ...
WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running, Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering, Shouts ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd ...
RECORDERS ages hence! Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior-I will tell you what to say of ...
ON my northwest coast in the midst of the night, a fishermen's group stands watching; Out on the lake, that ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
O BITTER sprig! Confession sprig! In the bouquet I give you place also-I bind you in, Proceeding no further till, ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted, Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating ...
THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon! Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand, The sibilant near sea ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
WANDERING at morn, Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts-thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing ...
NOT heaving from my ribb'd breast only; Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself; Not in those ...
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
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