Poems Of Democracy by Walt Whitman

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Poems Of Democracy

To Foreign Lands
I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy, … Continue Reading …

To Thee Old Cause
To thee old cause!
Thou peerless, passionate, good cause,Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea,
Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands, … Continue Reading …

For You O Democracy
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
I will make divine magnetic lands, … Continue Reading …

Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
Thou Mother with thy equal brood,
Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
A special song before I go I’d sing o’er all the rest, … Continue Reading …

What Best I See in Thee
What best I see in thee
Is not that where thou mov’st down history’s great highways,
Ever undimm’d by time shoots warlike victory’s dazzle, … Continue Reading …

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I walk these broad majestic days of peace
(For the war, the struggle of blood finish’d, wherein, O terrific Ideal, … Continue Reading …

The United States to Old World Critics
Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty; … Continue Reading …

Years of the Modern
Years of the modern! years of the unperform’d!
Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,
I see not America only, not only Liberty’s nation but other nations preparing, … Continue Reading …

O Star of France
O star of France,
The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long, … Continue Reading …

Thoughts
Of these years I sing,
How they pass and have pass’d through convuls’d pains, as through parturitions, … Continue Reading …

By Blue Ontario’s Shore
By blue Ontario’s shore,
As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return’d, and the dead that return no more, … Continue Reading …

Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deeps
Rise O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour’d what the earth gave me, … Continue Reading …

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