A Noiseless Patient Spider (Walt Whitman Poems)
A noiseless, patient spider,I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,It ...
Walt Whitman Poems on Space (29 Poems)
Eidólons. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
To the Man-of-War-Bird. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above ...
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon! Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand, The sibilant near sea ...
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 ...
Dalliance of the Eagles, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the ...
Night on The Prairies. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NIGHT on the prairies; The supper is over-the fire on the ground burns low; The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in ...
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, ...
American Feuillage. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
Mystic Trumpeter, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
Gliding Over All. (Walt Whitman Poems)
GLIDING o'er all, through all, Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kosmos. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHO includes diversity, and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Miracles. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHY! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk ...
A Noiseless Patient Spider. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A NOISELESS, patient spider, I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, ...
All is Truth. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O ME, man of slack faith so long! Standing aloof-denying portions so long; Only aware to-day of compact, all-diffused truth; ...
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 ...
Germs. (Walt Whitman Poems)
FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, The ones known, and the ones unknown-the ones on the stars, The stars themselves, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...