Hast never come to thee an hour,A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?These eager business aims–books, politics, art, amours,To utter nothingness?

Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,Homer with all his wars and warriors, Hector, Achilles,…

Great are the myths – I too delight in them;Great are Adam and Eve – I too look back and accept them;Great the risen and…

Thought of the Infinite – the All!Be thou my God. Lover Divine, and Perfect Comrade!Waiting, content, invisible yet, but certain,Be thou my God. Thou –…

Gliding o’er all, through all,Through Nature, Time, and Space,As a ship on the waters advancing,The voyage of the soul – not life alone,Death, many deaths…

Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling;Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard;Give me a field where…

Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,The ones known, and the ones unknown – the ones on the stars,The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,Wonders as…

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,To…

From pent-up, aching rivers;From that of myself, without which I were nothing;From what I am determin’d to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among…

From Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird,Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all;To the north betaking myself, to sing there…