Come up from the fields, father, here’s a letter from our Pete;And come to the front door, mother–here’s a letter from thy dear son. Lo,…

City of ships!(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!O the beautiful, sharp-bow’d steam-ships and sail-ships!)City of the world! (for all races are here;All the…

City of orgies, walks and joys!City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,Not the pageants of…

Chanting the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides;Out of the old and new–out of the square entirely divine,Solid, four-sided, (all…

A line in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands;They take a serpentine course–their arms flash in the sun–Hark to the musical clank;Behold the…

Earth, round, rolling, compact–suns, moons, animals–all these are words to be said;Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances–beings, premonitions, lispings of the future,Behold! these are vast words to…

Come closer to me;Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess;Yield closer and closer, and give me the best you possess. This is…

Not alone those camps of white, O soldiers,When, as order’d forward, after a long march,Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessen’d, we halted for…

By the bivouac’s fitful flame,A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow;–but first I note,The tents of the sleeping army, the fields’ and…

By broad Potomac’s shore–again, old tongue!(Still uttering–still ejaculating–canst never cease this babble?)Again, old heart so gay–again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning;Again…