Poems Of America by Walt Whitman

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Poems Of America

Hear America Singing
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, … Continue Reading …

Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? … Continue Reading …

Song of the Broad-axe
Weapon shapely, naked, wan,
Head from the mother’s bowels drawn,
Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only one and lip only one,… Continue Reading …

Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows, … Continue Reading …

Faces
The old face of the mother of many children,Whist! I am fully content.
Lull’d and late is the smoke of the First-day morning, … Continue Reading …

O Magnet-South
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! my South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me! … Continue Reading …

By Broad Potomac’s Shore
By broad Potomac’s shore, again old tongue
(Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?) … Continue Reading …

Our Old Feuillage!
Always our old feuillage!Always Florida’s green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas, … Continue Reading …

A Broadway Pageant
Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come,
Courteous, the swart-cheek’d two-sworded envoys,
Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive, … Continue Reading …

The Prairie States
A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, … Continue Reading …

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