I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World,And to define America, her athletic Democracy;Therefore I send you my poems,…
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To A Western Boy By Walt Whitman
O boy of the West!To you many things to absorb, I teach, to help you become eleve of mine:Yet if blood like mine circle not…
To A Stranger By Walt Whitman
Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes…
To A Pupil By Walt Whitman
Is reform needed? Is it through you?The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it. You! do you not see…
To A President By Walt Whitman
All you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,You have not learn’d of Nature, of the politics of Nature, you have not learn’d…
To A Locomotive In Winter By Walt Whitman
Thee for my recitative!Thee in the driving storm, even as now the snow the winter-day declining;Thee in thy panoply, thy measured dual throbbing, and thy…
To A Historian By Walt Whitman
You who celebrate bygones!Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself;Who have treated of man as the…
To A Foil’d European Revolutionaire By Walt Whitman
Courage yet! my brother or my sister!Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv’d, whatever occurs;That is nothing, that is quell’d by one or two failures,…
To A Common Prostitute By Walt Whitman
Be composed, be at ease with me, I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature;Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you;Not…
To A Certain Civilian By Walt Whitman
Did YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me?Did you seek the civilian’s peaceful and languishing rhymes?Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?Why…