Poems Of After-War by Walt Whitman

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Poems Of After-War

Weave In, My Hardy Life
Weave in, weave in, my hardy life,
Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come, … Continue Reading …

How Solemn as One by One
How solemn as one by one,
As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand, … Continue Reading …

Spirit Whose Work Is Done
Spirit whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!
Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;
Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing), … Continue Reading …

The Return of the Heroes
For the lands and for these passionate days and for myself,
Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee, … Continue Reading …

Memories of President Lincoln

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. … Continue Reading …

O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, … Continue Reading …

Hush’d be the Camps To-day
Hush’d be the camps to-day,
And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,
And each with musing soul retire to celebrate, … Continue Reading …

Ashes of Soldiers
Ashes of soldiers South or North,
As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes, … Continue Reading …

Pensive on her Dead Gazing
Pensive on her dead gazing I heard the Mother of All,
Desperate on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battlefields gazing … Continue Reading …

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