I say whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. I say nourish a great intellect, a great brain;If I have…

Thither, as I look, I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated;Thither hours, months, years thither trades, compacts, establishments, even…

O take my hand, Walt Whitman!Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!Such join’d unended links, each hook’d to the next!Each answering all each sharing the…

Roots and leaves themselves alone are these;Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods, and from the pond-side,Breast-sorrel and pinks of love–fingers that…

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast all that is call’d Evil I…

Rise, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep!Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I devour’d what the earth gave me;Long I…

Respondez! Respondez!(The war is completed the price is paid the title is settled beyond recall;)Let every one answer! let those who sleep be waked! let…

Recorders ages hence!Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior I will tell you what to say of me;Publish my name and hang…

Word over all, beautiful as the sky!Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the…

Race of veterans! Race of victors!Race of the soil, ready for conflict! race of the conquering march!(No more credulity’s race, abiding-temper’d race;)Race henceforth owning no…