Perfections. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ONLY themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. (Walt Whitman)
ONLY themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. (Walt Whitman)
1 FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you: You are to die-Let others tell ...
MY spirit to yours, dear brother; Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you; I do ...
THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in ...
WE two-how long we were fool'd! Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes; We are Nature-long have we been ...
A LINE in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands; They take a serpentine course-their arms flash in the ...
1 O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought ...
O ME, man of slack faith so long! Standing aloof-denying portions so long; Only aware to-day of compact, all-diffused truth; ...
WOMEN sit, or move to and fro-some old, some young; The young are beautiful-but the old are more beautiful than ...
OF him I love day and night, I dream'd I heard he was dead; And I dream'd I went where ...
TO thee, old Cause! Thou peerless, passionate, good cause! Thou stern, remorseless, sweet Idea! Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands! ...
I AM he that aches with amorous love; Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all matter? ...
1 COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone ...
QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither, Your schemes, politics, fail-lines give way-substances mock and elude me; Only ...
1 HUSH'D be the camps to-day; And, soldiers, let us drape our war-worn weapons; And each with musing soul retire, ...
ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these; Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods, and from the ...
O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless-of cities fill'd with ...
1 TO conclude-I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart. ...
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?) Outside fair costume-within ashes and ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
ARE you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning-I am surely far different from what you ...
I THOUGHT I was not alone, walking here by the shore, But the one I thought was with me, as ...
THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning-yet long untaught I did not hear; But now the chorus I hear, and ...
I NEED no assurances-I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; I do not doubt that from ...
1 WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day, Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching-I pause ...
1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal; Of unnamed ...
1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful ...
1 OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, ...
RACE of veterans! Race of victors! Race of the soil, ready for conflict! race of the conquering march! (No more ...
UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded; Unfolded only out ...
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