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 ...
Walt Whitman Poems on Soul (82 Poems)
O Star of France. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
Says. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. 2 I say nourish a ...
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 ...
O Sun of Real Peace. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O SUN of real peace! O hastening light! O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for! O ...
Sing of the Banner at Day-Break. (Walt Whitman Poems)
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
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 ...
Sleepers, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
Assurances. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I NEED no assurances-I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; I do not doubt that from ...
Laws for Creations. (Walt Whitman Poems)
LAWS for Creations, For strong artists and leaders-for fresh broods of teachers, and perfect literats for America, For noble savans, ...
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! ...
Years of the Modern. (Walt Whitman Poems)
YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises-I see it parting away for more august dramas; I ...
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 ...
An Old Man’s Thought of School. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AN old man's thought of School; An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself cannot. Now only ...
In Paths Untrodden. (Walt Whitman Poems)
IN paths untrodden, In the growth by margins of pond-waters, Escaped from the life that exhibits itself, From all the ...
Whispers of Heavenly Death. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHISPERS of heavenly death, murmur'd I hear; Labial gossip of night-sibilant chorals; Footsteps gently ascending-mystical breezes, wafted soft and low; ...
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 ...
Think of the Soul. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THINK of the Soul; I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to live ...
Faces. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
Gods. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 THOUGHT of the Infinite-the All! Be thou my God. 2 Lover Divine, and Perfect Comrade! Waiting, content, invisible yet, ...
Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...
As the Time Draws Nigh. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud, A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me. I ...
One Song, America, Before I Go. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ONE song, America, before I go, I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound, For thee-the Future. I'd sow ...
Song for All Seas, All Ships. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal; Of unnamed ...
Voices. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NOW I make a leaf of Voices-for I have found nothing mightier than they are, And I have found that ...
Darest Thou Now, O Soul. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 DAREST thou now, O Soul, Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region, Where neither ground is for the ...
Behavior. (Walt Whitman Poems)
BEHAVIOR-fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself, Nature and the Soul expressed-America and freedom expressed-In it the finest ...
A Woman Waits for Me. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A WOMAN waits for me-she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if ...
To a Pupil. (Walt Whitman Poems)
IS reform needed? Is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish ...
Singer in the Prison, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O sight of shame, and pain, and dole! O fearful thought-a convict Soul! RANG the refrain along the hall, ...