Songs Of Parting by Walt Whitman

In English – En Français – На Русском Языке – Bilingual

American Literature – Children Books – American Poetry – Walt Whitman – Poems by Walt Whitman – Songs Of Parting

In English

Songs Of Parting

Singers And Poets
The indications and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts; … Continue Reading …

To A Historian
You who celebrate bygones:
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races—the life that has
exhibited itself; … Continue Reading …

Fit Audience
Whoever you are, holding me now in hand,
Without one thing, all will be useless:
I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further, … Continue Reading …

Singing In Spring
These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers:
For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and joy?
And who but I should be the poet of comrades? … Continue Reading …

Love Of Comrades
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon!
I will make divine magnetic lands, … Continue Reading …

Pulse Of My Life
Not heaving from my ribbed breast only;
Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself;
Not in those long-drawn, ill-suppressed sighs; … Continue Reading …

Auxiliaries
WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal; … Continue Reading …

Realities
As I walk, solitary, unattended,
Around me I hear that éclat of the world—politics, produce,
The announcements of recognised things—science, … Continue Reading …

Nearing Departure
As nearing departure,
As the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud,
A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me. … Continue Reading …

Poets to come
Poets to come!
Not to-day is to justify me, and Democracy, and what we are for;
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before … Continue Reading …

Centuries Hence
Full of life now, compact, visible,
I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States,
To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence, … Continue Reading …

So Long!
To conclude—I announce what comes after me;
I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then depart, … Continue Reading …

Bilingual

American Literature – Children Books – American Poetry – Walt Whitman – Poems by Walt Whitman – Songs Of Parting