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 ...
Monday, June 27, 2022
Walt Whitman Poems (337 Poems)
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 ...
A Woman Waits For Me (Walt Whitman Poems)
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 (Walt Whitman Poems)
A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown;A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the ...
A Riddle Song (Walt Whitman Poems)
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? (Walt Whitman Poems)
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
1861 (Walt Whitman Poems)
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 (Walt Whitman Poems)
A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I ...
Adieu To A Solider (Walt Whitman Poems)
ADIEU, O soldier!You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)The rapid march, the life of the camp,The hot contention of ...
A Song (Walt Whitman Poems)
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 (Walt Whitman Poems)
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 ...
A Hand-Mirror (Walt Whitman Poems)
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)Outside fair costume--within ashes and filth,No ...
A Paumanok Picture (Walt Whitman Poems)
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 (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 ...
A Glimpse (Walt Whitman Poems)
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 (Walt Whitman Poems)
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 (Walt Whitman Poems)
A LEAF for hand in hand!You natural persons old and young!You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and ...
A Clear Midnight (Walt Whitman Poems)
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...
A Farm-Picture (Walt Whitman Poems)
THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding;And haze, and ...
A Child’s Amaze (Walt Whitman Poems)
SILENT and amazed, even when a little boy,I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in hisstatements,As contending ...
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 ...
When I heard at the Close of the Day. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
No Labor-Saving Machine. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NO labor-saving machine, Nor discovery have I made; Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest ...
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field. (Walt Whitman Poems)
VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night: When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side ...
France, the 18th year of These States. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any ...
Apostroph. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
Ox Tamer, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a ...
Not Youth Pertains to Me. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NOT youth pertains to me, Nor delicatesse-I cannot beguile the time with talk; Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer ...
These Carols. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THESE Carols, sung to cheer my passage through the world I see, For completion, I dedicate to the Invisible World. ...
Poets to Come. (Walt Whitman Poems)
POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; ...