Walt Whitman Poems (337 Poems)
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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 through Manhattan. Libertad!I do not know whether others behold what I behold,In the procession, along with the nobles of Asia, … Continue reading
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 see the show. Clear the way there, Jonathan!Way for the President’s marshal! Way for the government cannon!Way for the Federal … Continue reading
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 moisture of theright man were lacking. Sex contains all,Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results,promulgations,Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal … Continue reading
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 darkness;Our army foil’d with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating;Till after midnight glimmer upon us, the lights of a … Continue reading
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 fame, nor happiness nor wealth,And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the worldincessantly,Which you and I and … Continue reading
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?. . . .I do not know what itis any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, … Continue reading
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 poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzaspiano;But as a strong man, erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing,carrying a rifle on … Continue reading
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 walk in the cool fresh air, the path near by the hospitaltent,Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out … Continue reading
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 opposing fronts–the long manoeuver,Red battles with their slaughter,–the stimulus–the strong, terrificgame,Spell of all brave and manly hearts–the trains of Time … Continue reading
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 make divine magnetic lands,With the love of comrades,With the life-long love of comrades. I will plant companionship thick as trees … Continue reading
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