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Born in May 31, 1819 / Died in March 26, 1892 / United States / English

Poems by Walt Whitman

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Song of the Universal.

... Embracing, carrying, welcoming all, Thou too, by pathways broad and new, ...

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A Boston Ballad, 1854.

... You have got your revenge, old buster! The crown is come to its own, and more than its ...

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Souvenirs of Democracy.

... leaving, To You, who ever you are, (bathing, leavening this leaf especially with my ...

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After the Sea-Ship.

... The wake of the Sea-Ship, after she passes—flashing and frolicsome, under the sun, ...

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A Promise to California.

... For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the ...

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Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances.

... When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us ...

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As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing.

... Or the sower sowing in the fields—or the harvester harvesting, ...

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Who is now Reading This?

... ) Or as if I did not see, perfectly well, interior in myself, the stuff of wrong-doing, ...

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A Carol of Harvest, for 1867

... A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork ...

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Says.

... 4 I say where liberty draws not the blood out of slavery, there slavery draws the blood out ...

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O Sun of Real Peace.

... O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height—and you too, O my ...

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Excelsior.

... have I not said the words that shall stretch through longer time ...

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Warble for Lilac-Time.

... Blue-bird, and darting swallow—nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings, ...

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From Pent-up Aching Rivers.

... The oath of the inseparableness of two together—of the woman that loves me, and whom ...

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This Day, O Soul.

... Long in the dark, in tarnish and cloud it lay—But the cloud has pass’d, and the ...