With Antecedents. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
Walt Whitman Poems on Past (34 Poems)
Song of the Universal. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
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 ...
Prayer of Columbus. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark ...
Carol of Words. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
A Broadway Pageant. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
Two Rivulets. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TWO Rivulets side by side, Two blended, parallel, strolling tides, Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey. For the Eternal Ocean ...
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
What think You I take my Pen in Hand? (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record? The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the ...
Eidólons. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
Prairie States, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, With iron interlaced, composite, ...
Centenarian’s Story, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
I was Looking a Long While. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these ...
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
To Think of Time. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
O Living Always-Always Dying. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O LIVING always-always dying! O the burials of me, past and present! O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, ...
Song of the Open Road. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
On the Beach at Night, Alone. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ON the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song, As ...
Passage to India. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
Drum-Taps. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city, How ...
Turn, O Libertad. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TURN, O Libertad, for the war is over, (From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the ...
To the Garden the World. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO the garden, the world, anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning ...
Starting from Paumanok. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
For Him I Sing. (Walt Whitman Poems)
FOR him I sing, (As some perennial tree, out of its roots, the present on the past:) With time and ...
Kosmos. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHO includes diversity, and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the ...
Song at Sunset. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic-hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat-you, divine average! You, Earth ...
Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality-on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After ...
So Long. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 TO conclude-I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart. ...