A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
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, ...
THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere, The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People, (Full well they ...
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
NIGHT on the prairies; The supper is over-the fire on the ground burns low; The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1 BEAT! beat! drums!-Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows-through doors-burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter ...
1 THOUGHT of the Infinite-the All! Be thou my God. 2 Lover Divine, and Perfect Comrade! Waiting, content, invisible yet, ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
THEE for my recitative! Thee in the driving storm, even as now-the snow-the winter-day declining; Thee in thy panoply, thy ...
PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse, Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind, Nor ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother-here's ...
OF him I love day and night, I dream'd I heard he was dead; And I dream'd I went where ...
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
1 GREAT are the myths-I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve-I too look back and accept them; ...
TEARS! tears! tears! In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand; ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises-I see it parting away for more august dramas; I ...
I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics-each one singing his, as it should be, blithe ...
NOT alone those camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and weary, soon ...
1 O sight of shame, and pain, and dole! O fearful thought-a convict Soul! RANG the refrain along the hall, ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
ON the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song, As ...
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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