So Far and So Far, and on Toward the End. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible ...
Walt Whitman Poems on Poetry (30 Poems)
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me. (Walt Whitman Poems)
HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting: Here I shade and hide my thoughts-I myself do not ...
Mediums. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the ...
Carol of Occupations. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
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 Exposition. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
Ox Tamer, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a ...
To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor ...
Chanting the Square Deific. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unfolded Out of the Folds. (Walt Whitman Poems)
UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded; Unfolded only out ...
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, ...
Spontaneous Me. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend ...
Proud Music of The Storm. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
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 ...
Kosmos. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHO includes diversity, and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the ...
Indications, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in ...
To Rich Givers. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money-these, as I rendezvous ...
As I Ponder’d in Silence. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful ...
Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, ...
To Foreign Lands. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle, the New World, And to define America, her athletic ...
Full of Life, Now. (Walt Whitman Poems)
FULL of life, now, compact, visible, I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States, To one a century ...
Poem of Joys. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
Elemental Drifts. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb'd ...
I Sing the Body Electric. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
In Cabin’d Ships at Sea. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 IN cabin'd ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the ...
Thought. (Walt Whitman Poems)
OF what I write from myself-As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories-As if such, however complete, were not ...