A California song!A prophecy and indirection a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air;A chorus of dryads, fading, departing or hamadryads departing;A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense. Farewell, my brethren,Farewell, O earth and sky farewell, ye neighboring waters;My time has ended,…
Song Of The Open Road By Walt Whitman
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I…
Song Of The Exposition By Walt Whitman
After all, not to create only, or found only,But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded,To give it our own identity, average, limitless,…
Song Of The Broad-Axe By Walt Whitman
Weapon, shapely, naked, wan!Head from the mother’s bowels drawn!Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and lip only one!Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve…
Song For All Seas, All Ships By Walt Whitman
To-day a rude brief recitative,Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal;Of unnamed heroes in the ships Of waves spreading and…
Song At Sunset By Walt Whitman
Splendor of ended day, floating and filling me!Hour prophetic hour resuming the past!Inflating my throat you, divine average!You, Earth and Life, till the last ray…
Sometimes With One I Love By Walt Whitman
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn’d love;But now I think there is no unreturn’d love the…
Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb By Walt Whitman
Solid, ironical, rolling orb!Master of all, and matter of fact! at last I accept your terms;Bringing to practical, vulgar tests, of all my ideal dreams,And…
So Long By Walt Whitman
To conclude I announce what comes after me;I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart. I remember I said, before my…
So Far And So Far, And On Toward The End By Walt Whitman
So far, and so far, and on toward the end,Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible impulses of me;But whether I continue…