A Clear Midnight (Walt Whitman Poems)
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...
WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing? What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters! Who are they, ...
A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark ...
NIGHT on the prairies; The supper is over-the fire on the ground burns low; The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
NOT heaving from my ribb'd breast only; Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself; Not in those ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
BY the bivouac's fitful flame, A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow;-but first I note, The tents ...
1 IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded-of that ...
AS Adam, early in the morning, Walking forth from the bower, refresh'd with sleep; Behold me where I pass-hear my ...
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
OF him I love day and night, I dream'd I heard he was dead; And I dream'd I went where ...
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Now I see ...
NOT alone those camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and weary, soon ...
SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend ...
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going-North and South excursions making, ...
I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; The sleeping mother and babe-hush'd, I study them long ...
1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother-here's ...
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic-hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat-you, divine average! You, Earth ...
1 GREAT are the myths-I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve-I too look back and accept them; ...
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