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 ...
1 AT the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house, From the clasp of the knitted locks-from ...
A PROMISE to California, Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon: Sojourning east a while longer, soon I ...
THIS day, O Soul, I give you a wondrous mirror; Long in the dark, in tarnish and cloud it lay-But ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
EARTH! my likeness! Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, I now suspect that is not all; I ...
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
1 IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life, But here I twine the strands ...
THITHER, as I look, I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated; Thither hours, months, ...
LO! Victress on the peaks! Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world, (The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired ...
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