O sun of real peace! O hastening light!O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!O the sun of the world will ascend,…

O star of France!The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,Beseems to-day a wreck, driven…

O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;Of the endless trains of the faithless – of cities fill’d with the foolish;Of myself forever…

O living always – always dying!O the burials of me, past and present!O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever!O me, what…

O Hymen! O hymenee!Why do you tantalize me thus?O why sting me for a swift moment only?Why can you not continue? O why do you…

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells…

O bitter sprig! Confession sprig!In the bouquet I give you place also – I bind you in,Proceeding no further till, humbled publicly,I give fair warning,…

Now list to my morning’s romanza – I tell the signs of the Answerer;To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the…

Now finale to the shore!Now, land and life, finale, and farewell!Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is yet in store;)Often enough hast thou adventur’d…

Not youth pertains to me,Nor delicatesse – I cannot beguile the time with talk;Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant;In the learn’d coterie…