I wander all night in my vision,Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,Wandering…

O sight of shame, and pain, and dole!O fearful thought a convict Soul! Rang the refrain along the hall, the prison,Rose to the roof, the…

Lo! The unbounded sea!On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sails an ample Ship, carrying even her moonsails;The pennant is flying aloft, as…

On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner;He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs;He is thinly clothed he leans forward as he runs,With lightly…

The prairie-grass dividing its special odor breathing,I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,Demand the blades to rise…

A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude,Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,By all the world…

In a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region,Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer of Oxen:There they bring…

Hark! some wild trumpeter some strange musician,Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter listening, alert, I catch thy notes,Now pouring,…

The indications, and tally of time;Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts;What always indicates the poet, is the…

An old man bending, I come, among new faces,Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children,Come tell us, old man, as from young men and…