No labor-saving machine,Nor discovery have I made;Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,Nor reminiscence…

Night on the prairies;The supper is over – the fire on the ground burns low;The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets:I walk by myself…

Native moments! when you come upon me – Ah you are here now! Give me now libidinous joys only! Give me the drench of my passions! Give me…

Myself and mine gymnastic ever,To stand the cold or heat – to take good aim with a gun – to sail a boat – to…

In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d house,It is round, it is only a few inches from one side…

I see the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother;The sleeping mother and babe-hush’d, I study them long and long.

Why! who makes much of a miracle?As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,Or dart my sight…

They shall arise in the States,They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness;They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos;They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive;They shall…

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,Master of all, or mistress of all – aplomb in the midst of irrational things,Imbued as they – passive,…

I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Now I see what there is in a name,…