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, ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
WHO includes diversity, and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality-on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After ...
1 AS the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud, A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me. I ...
THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in ...
BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact, consciousness-these forms-the power of motion, The least ...
I NEED no assurances-I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; I do not doubt that from ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
THINK of the Soul; I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to live ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal; Of unnamed ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice-churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker-parents and offspring-merchant, clerk, porter ...
AS I walk these broad, majestic days of peace, (For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic-hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat-you, divine average! You, Earth ...
TO thee, old Cause! Thou peerless, passionate, good cause! Thou stern, remorseless, sweet Idea! Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands! ...
ASHES of soldiers! As I muse, retrospective, murmuring a chant in thought, Lo! the war resumes-again to my sense your ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
ADIEU, O soldier! You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,) The rapid march, the life of the camp, The ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was ...
1 DAREST thou now, O Soul, Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region, Where neither ground is for the ...
1 TO conclude-I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart. ...
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