A Boston Ballad, 1854 (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here's a good place at the corner--I must stand and ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here's a good place at the corner--I must stand and ...
A WOMAN waits for me--she contains all, nothing is lacking,Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the ...
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
BY the City Dead-House, by the gate, As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause-for lo! ...
AMONG the men and women, the multitude, I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs, Acknowledging none ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
BATHED in war's perfume-delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and traditions; ...
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early; Here's a good place at the corner-I must stand ...
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1 I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. 2 I say nourish a ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet? ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded; Unfolded only out ...
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...
NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States; Garner'd clusters of ages, ...
AS at thy portals also death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my mother, to the divine ...
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