Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
AMONG the men and women, the multitude, I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs, Acknowledging none ...
1 RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep! Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I ...
TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still, Ten fishermen waiting-they discover a thick school of mossbonkers-they drop ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above ...
AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats! Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me! (For what is my life, ...
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 how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
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 one night: When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side ...
1 A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any ...
O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! ...
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, Nor delicatesse-I cannot beguile the time with talk; Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer ...
THESE Carols, sung to cheer my passage through the world I see, For completion, I dedicate to the Invisible World. ...
POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; ...
THE business man, the acquirer vast, After assiduous years, surveying results, preparing for departure, Devises houses and lands to his ...
WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time, Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake-and ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering; How often I find myself standing ...
FAST-ANCHOR'D, eternal, O love! O woman I love! O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought ...
THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere, The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People, (Full well they ...
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd-Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love ...
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy! Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift; Praises and presents came, and nourishing food-till ...
I SAW old General at bay; (Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars;) ...
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-after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad ...
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes' ...
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