Walt Whitman’s Caution. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning ...
TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning ...
A GLIMPSE, through an interstice caught, Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove, late ...
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse, Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind, Nor ...
ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, You have not learn'd of Nature-of the politics of ...
O HYMEN! O hymenee! Why do you tantalize me thus? O why sting me for a swift moment only? Why ...
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb'd ...
I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics-each one singing his, as it should be, blithe ...
FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, The ones known, and the ones unknown-the ones on the stars, The stars themselves, ...
NOW I make a leaf of Voices-for I have found nothing mightier than they are, And I have found that ...
AS I walk these broad, majestic days of peace, (For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific ...
CITY of orgies, walks and joys! City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day ...
1 OUT of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me, Whispering, I love you, before long ...
1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother-here's ...
THIS moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone, It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and ...
NATIVE moments! when you come upon me-Ah you are here now! Give me now libidinous joys only! Give me the ...
WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice-churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker-parents and offspring-merchant, clerk, porter ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your ...
1 BEAT! beat! drums!-Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows-through doors-burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter ...
LO! the unbounded sea! On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sails-an ample Ship, carrying even her moonsails; ...
THIS dust was once the Man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute-under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history ...
ONE song, America, before I go, I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound, For thee-the Future. I'd sow ...
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be ...
THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And ...
O BOY of the West! To you many things to absorb, I teach, to help you become eleve of mine: ...
LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene; Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple; On ...
I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle, the New World, And to define America, her athletic ...
1 IN cabin'd ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the ...
A WOMAN waits for me-she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if ...
THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And ...
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