A Proadway Pageant (Walt Whitman Poems)
OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come,Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,Ride to-day ...
OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come,Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,Ride to-day ...
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 MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown;A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
ARM'D year! year of the struggle!No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!Not you as some pale ...
A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I ...
ADIEU, O soldier!You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)The rapid march, the life of the camp,The hot contention of ...
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;I will ...
ABOARD, at a ship's helm,A young steersman, steering with care.A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell--O a ...
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)Outside fair costume--within ashes and filth,No ...
TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,Ten fishermen waiting--they discover a thick school of mossbonkers--they drop the ...
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 ...
A GLIMPSE, through an interstice caught,Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove,late of a ...
A PROMISE to California,Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward ...
A LEAF for hand in hand!You natural persons old and young!You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and ...
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...
THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding;And haze, and ...
SILENT and amazed, even when a little boy,I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in hisstatements,As contending ...
WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning, Scarlet, ...
AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields-or the harvester harvesting, I saw there too, ...
SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
FACING west, from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards ...
HE is wisest who has the most caution, He only wins who goes far enough. Any thing is as good ...
AND now, gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base, and finale too, for ...
1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled ...
THE prairie-grass dividing-its special odor breathing, I demand of it the spiritual corresponding, Demand the most copious and close companionship ...
WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege? Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, ...
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