Are you the new person drawn toward me?To begin with, take warning–I am surely far different from what you suppose;Do you suppose you will find…

O mater! O fils!O brood continental!O flowers of the prairies!O space boundless! O hum of mighty products!O you teeming cities! O so invincible, turbulent, proud!O…

An old man�s thought of School; An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself cannot.  Now only do I know you! O fair auroral…

With its cloud of skirmishers in advance,With now the sound of a single shot, snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,The swarming ranks…

Among the men and women, the multitude,I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,Acknowledging none else–not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any…

America always!Always our own feuillage!Always Florida’s green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas!Always California’s golden hills and…

O me, man of slack faith so long!Standing aloof–denying portions so long;Only aware to-day of compact, all-diffused truth;Discovering to-day there is no lie, or form…

Ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats!Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me!(For what is my life, or any man’s life, but a conflict…

Ages and ages, returning at intervals,Undestroy’d, wandering immortal,Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,I, chanter of Adamic songs,Through the new garden, the West,…

After the Sea-Ship–after the whistling winds;After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,Tending in…