The last sunbeamLightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,On the pavement here–and there beyond, it is looking,Down a new-made double grave. Lo! the moon ascending!Up from…

Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night,The sad voice of Death–the call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarmed, uncertain,This sea I am…

Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining!Flag of death! (how I watch’d you through the smoke of battle pressing!How…

He is wisest who has the most caution,He only wins who goes far enough. Any thing is as good as established, when that is established…

Darest thou now, O Soul,Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region,Where neither ground is for the feet, nor any path to follow? No map,…

Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face;Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face….

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…