O sun of real peace! O hastening light!O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height – and you too, O my Ideal, will surely ascend!O so amazing and broad – up there resplendent, darting and burning!O vision prophetic, stagger’d with…
O Star Of France By Walt Whitman
O star of France!The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,Beseems to-day a wreck, driven…
O Me! O Life! By Walt Whitman
O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;Of the endless trains of the faithless – of cities fill’d with the foolish;Of myself forever…
O Living Always – Always Dying By Walt Whitman
O living always – always dying!O the burials of me, past and present!O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever!O me, what…
O Hymen! O Hymenee! By Walt Whitman
O Hymen! O hymenee!Why do you tantalize me thus?O why sting me for a swift moment only?Why can you not continue? O why do you…
O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells…
O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! By Walt Whitman
O bitter sprig! Confession sprig!In the bouquet I give you place also – I bind you in,Proceeding no further till, humbled publicly,I give fair warning,…
Now List To My Morning’s Romanza By Walt Whitman
Now list to my morning’s romanza – I tell the signs of the Answerer;To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the…
Now Finale To The Shore By Walt Whitman
Now finale to the shore!Now, land and life, finale, and farewell!Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is yet in store;)Often enough hast thou adventur’d…
Not Youth Pertains To Me By Walt Whitman
Not youth pertains to me,Nor delicatesse – I cannot beguile the time with talk;Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant;In the learn’d coterie…