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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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Sing of the Banner at Day-Break.

... them not; I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only, ...

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Thick-Sprinkled Bunting.

... O hasten, flag of man! O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings, ...

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What think You I take my Pen in Hand?

... —No; But I record of two simple men I saw to-day, on the pier, in the midst of the crowd, ...

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Eidólons.

... But from the whole resulting, rising at last and floating, A round, full-orb’d ...

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Locations and Times.

... LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and ...

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Or from that Sea of Time.

... Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica’s rim—strains for the Soul of the Prairies, ...

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As Toilsome I Wander’d.

... Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street, ...

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Song of the Exposition.

... bakers; You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become ...

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Ox Tamer, The.

... He will go, fearless, without any whip, where the young bullock chafes up and down the ...

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Artilleryman’s Vision, The.

... they pass; The grape, like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (quick, tumultuous, now the ...

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Of the Visage of Things.

... Of ugliness—To me there is just as much in it as there is in beauty—And now the ...

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In Former Songs.

... 1 IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life, ...

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Others may Praise what They Like.

... But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing, in art, or aught else, ...

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Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States.

... The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of ...

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Prairie States, The.

... By all the world contributed—freedom’s and law’s and thrift’s society, ...