Lo! Victress on the peaks!Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world,(The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee;)Out of its countless beleaguering toils,…

There are who teach only the sweet lessons of peace and safety;But I teach lessons of war and death to those I love,That they readily…

A song of the good green grass!A song no more of the city streets;A song of farms – a song of the soil of fields….

Laws for Creations,For strong artists and leaders – for fresh broods of teachers, and perfect literats for America,For noble savans, and coming musicians. All must…

Who includes diversity, and is Nature,Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of…

Joy! shipmate – joy!(Pleas’d to my Soul at death I cry;)Our life is closed – our life begins;The long, long anchorage we leave,The ship is…

Through the soft evening air enwrinding all,Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,In dulcet streams, in flutes’ and cornets’ notes,Electric, pensive, turbulent artificial,(Yet strangely…

Small is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatest – namely,One’s-Self – that wondrous thing a simple, separate person.That, for the use of…

In the new garden, in all the parts,In cities now, modern, I wander,Though the second or third result, or still further, primitive yet,Days, places, indifferent…

In paths untrodden,In the growth by margins of pond-waters,Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,From all the standards hitherto publish’d – from the pleasures, profits,…