Poems by Walt Whitman
By Broad Potomacs Shore.
... ) Again, old heart so gayagain to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning ...
Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats.
... (For what is my life, or any mans life, but a conflict with foesthe old, the ...
These Carols.
... THESE Carols, sung to cheer my passage through the world I see, ...
I saw Old General at Bay.
... I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranksbut two or three were selected ...
Behold this Swarthy Face.
... Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with ...
From Far Dakotas Cañons.
... I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy ...
What Place is Besieged?
... Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal ...
Not Heat Flames up and Consumes.
... O nor down-balls, nor perfumes, nor the high, rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the ...
Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb.
... Bringing to practical, vulgar tests, of all my ideal dreams, ...
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling.
... Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions, ...
As Consequent, Etc.
... Wafted inland, sent from Atlanticas rim, strains for the soul of the prairies, ...
Not Heaving from My Ribbâd Breast Only.
... Nor in the limbs and senses of my body, that take you and dismiss you continuallyNot ...
A Child's Amaze
... I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his ...
O Living Always--Always Dying
... O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look ...
The Centerarian's Story
... ran, And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see, south and south- ...
