Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,Arouse! Arouse – for you must justify me – you must answer. I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,I but advance…
Poems Of Joys By Walt Whitman
O to make the most jubilant poem!Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of Death.O full of music! full of manhood,…
Poem Of Remembrance For A Girl Or A Boy By Walt Whitman
You just maturing youth! You male or female!Remember the organic compact of These States,Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward to the rights, life,…
Pioneers! O Pioneers! By Walt Whitman
Come, my tan-faced children,Follow well in order, get your weapons ready;Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes?Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot…
Perfections By Walt Whitman
Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves,As Souls only understand Souls.
Pensive On Her Dead Gazing, I Heard The Mother Of All By Walt Whitman
Pensive, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All,Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing;(As the last gun…
Pensive And Faltering By Walt Whitman
Pensive and faltering,The words, the dead, I write;For living are the Dead;(Haply the only living, only real,And I the apparition – I the spectre.)
Patroling Barnegat By Walt Whitman
Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running,Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,Waves,…
Passage To India By Walt Whitman
Singing my days,Singing the great achievements of the present,Singing the strong, light works of engineers,Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,)In the Old World,…
Over The Carnage By Walt Whitman
Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice,Be not dishearten’d – Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;Those who love each other shall become invincible…