Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman

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Leaves Of Grass

President Lincoln’s Funeral Hymn
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,
And the great star[1] early drooped in the western sky in the night, … Continue Reading …

O Captain! My Captain! (For The Death Of Lincoln)
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done!
The ship has weathered every wrack, the prize we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, … Continue Reading …

Pioneers! O Pioneers
Come, my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; … Continue Reading …

To The Sayers Of Words
Earth, round, rolling, compact—suns, moons, animals—all these are words
to be said; … Continue Reading …

Voices
Now I make a leaf of Voices—for I have found nothing mightier than they
are,… Continue Reading …

Whosoever
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear those supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands; … Continue Reading …

Beginners
How they are provided for upon the earth, appearing at intervals;
How dear and dreadful they are to the earth; … Continue Reading …

To A Pupil
Is reform needed? Is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the PERSONALITY you need to accomplish it. … Continue Reading …

Links
Think of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to
live in other spheres; … Continue Reading …

The Waters
The world below the brine. Forests at the bottom of the sea—the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds—the thick tangle,… Continue Reading …

To The States
Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight! Scum floating atop of the waters! … Continue Reading …

Tears
Tears! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears;
On the white shore dripping, dripping, sucked in by the sand; … Continue Reading …

A Ship
Aboard, at the ship’s helm,
A young steersman, steering with care. … Continue Reading …

Greatnesses
Great are the myths—I too delight in them;
Great are Adam and Eve—I too look back and accept them; … Continue Reading …

The Poet
Now list to my morning’s romanza;
To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before me. … Continue Reading …

Burial
To think of it!
To think of time—of all that retrospection!
To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! … Continue Reading …

This Compost
Something startles me where I thought I was safest;
I withdraw from the still woods I loved;
I will not go now on the pastures to walk; … Continue Reading …

Despairing Cries
Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death—the call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarmed, uncertain, … Continue Reading …

The City Dead-House
By the City Dead-House, by the gate,
As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangour,
I curious pause … Continue Reading …

To One Shortly To Die
From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
You are to die—Let others tell you what they please, … Continue Reading …

Unnamed Lands
Nations, ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten
thousand years before these States; … Continue Reading …

Similitude
On the beach at night alone,
As the old Mother sways her to and fro, singing her savage and husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining— … Continue Reading …

The Square Deific
Chanting the Square Deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides;
Out of the old and new—out of the square entirely divine,
Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed) … Continue Reading …

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