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 ...
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 ...
Longings for Home. (Walt Whitman Poems)
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
After the Sea-Ship. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AFTER the Sea-Ship-after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad ...
From Pent-up Aching Rivers. (Walt Whitman Poems)
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
Italian Music in Dakota. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes' ...
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me. (Walt Whitman Poems)
HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting: Here I shade and hide my thoughts-I myself do not ...
Me Imperturbe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all, or mistress of all-aplomb in the midst of irrational things, ...
Inscription. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SMALL is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatest-namely, One's-Self-that wondrous thing a simple, separate person. That, for ...
Artilleryman’s Vision, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
How Solemn as One by One. (Walt Whitman Poems)
HOW solemn, as one by one, As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty-as the men file by where I ...
Behold this Swarthy Face. (Walt Whitman Poems)
BEHOLD this swarthy face-these gray eyes, This beard-the white wool, unclipt upon my neck, My brown hands, and the silent ...