Pensive and Faltering. (Walt Whitman Poems)
PENSIVE and faltering, The words, the dead, I write; For living are the Dead; (Haply the only living, only real, ...
PENSIVE and faltering, The words, the dead, I write; For living are the Dead; (Haply the only living, only real, ...
TWO Rivulets side by side, Two blended, parallel, strolling tides, Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey. For the Eternal Ocean ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
YOU felons on trial in courts; You convicts in prison-cells-you sentenced assassins, chain'd and hand-cuff'd with iron; Who am I, ...
NOW, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhile-Here! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you ...
SOLID, ironical, rolling orb! Master of all, and matter of fact!-at last I accept your terms; Bringing to practical, vulgar ...
THERE are who teach only the sweet lessons of peace and safety; But I teach lessons of war and death ...
PENSIVE, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All, Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering ...
I WILL take an egg out of the robin's nest in the orchard, I will take a branch of gooseberries ...
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible ...
BATHED in war's perfume-delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the ...
NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back, and many times baffled; Not ...
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag!-long yet your road, and lined with bloody death! For ...
I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting; Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of ...
IN the new garden, in all the parts, In cities now, modern, I wander, Though the second or third result, ...
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor ...
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and traditions; ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
FROM Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird, Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all; To ...
THE world below the brine; Forests at the bottom of the sea-the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers ...
HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted, Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating ...
WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record? The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the ...
ONE sweeps by, attended by an immense train, All emblematic of peace-not a soldier or menial among them. One sweeps ...
YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs; I would sing ...
THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon! Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand, The sibilant near sea ...
ON my northwest coast in the midst of the night, a fishermen's group stands watching; Out on the lake, that ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
WITH its cloud of skirmishers in advance, With now the sound of a single shot, snapping like a whip, and ...
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