Let us twain walk aside from the rest;Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to…
Author: Samantha Evans
To Think Of Time By Walt Whitman
To think of time, of all that retrospection!To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess’d you yourself would not continue?Have you…
To Thee, Old Cause! By Walt Whitman
To thee, old Cause!Thou peerless, passionate, good cause!Thou stern, remorseless, sweet Idea!Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands!After a strange, sad war, great war for thee,(I…
To The States By Walt Whitman
Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters!Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the…
To The Reader At Parting By Walt Whitman
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,We must separate awhile, Here! take from my lips this kiss.Whoever you are, I give it especially to…
To The Man-Of-War-Bird By Walt Whitman
Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm,Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions,(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended’st,And rested on the sky,…
To The Leaven’d Soil They Trod By Walt Whitman
To the leaven’d soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last;(Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor the dead,But forth from my tent…
To The Garden The World By Walt Whitman
To the garden, the world, anew ascending,Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,Curious, here behold my resurrection, after…
To The East And To The West By Walt Whitman
To the East and to the West;To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,To the Kanadian of the North, to the Southerner I…
To Rich Givers By Walt Whitman
What you give me, I cheerfully accept,A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money these, as I rendezvous with my poems;A traveler’s lodging…