Still, though the one I sing,(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,I leave in him Revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)
States! By Walt Whitman
States!Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers?By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? Away!I arrive, bringing these, beyond all the…
Starting From Paumanok By Walt Whitman
Starting from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother;After roaming many lands lover of populous pavements;Dweller in Mannahatta, my city…
Spontaneous Me By Walt Whitman
Spontaneous me, Nature,The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,The hill-side whiten’d…
Spirit Whose Work Is Done By Walt Whitman
Spirit whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours!Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward…
Spirit That Form’d This Scene By Walt Whitman
Spirit that form’d this scene,These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,These formless wild arrays, for reasons of…
Sparkles From The Wheel By Walt Whitman
Where the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day,Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching I pause aside with them. By the curb,…
Spain 1873-’74 By Walt Whitman
Out of the murk of heaviest clouds,Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap’d-up skeletons of kings,Out of that old entire European debris the shatter’d mummeries,Ruin’d…
Souvenirs Of Democracy By Walt Whitman
The business man, the acquirer vast,After assiduous years, surveying results, preparing for departure,Devises houses and lands to his children bequeaths stocks, goods funds for a…
Song Of The Universal By Walt Whitman
Come, said the Muse,Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,Sing me the Universal. In this broad Earth of ours,Amid the measureless grossness and…