Elemental drifts!How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb’d with an ebb of the ocean of life,As I wended the shores I know,As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you, Paumanok,Where they rustle up, hoarse and sibilant,Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her…
Eidolons By Walt Whitman
I met a seer,Passing the hues and objects of the world,The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,To glean eidolons. Put in thy chants said…
Earth! My Likeness! By Walt Whitman
Earth! my likeness!Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,I now suspect that is not all;I now suspect there is something fierce in you,…
Drum-Taps By Walt Whitman
Aroused and angry,I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war;But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d, and I resign’d myself,To sit…
Dirge For Two Veterans By Walt Whitman
The last sunbeamLightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,On the pavement here–and there beyond, it is looking,Down a new-made double grave. Lo! the moon ascending!Up from…
Despairing Cries By Walt Whitman
Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night,The sad voice of Death–the call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarmed, uncertain,This sea I am…
Delicate Cluster By Walt Whitman
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining!Flag of death! (how I watch’d you through the smoke of battle pressing!How…
Debris By Walt Whitman
He is wisest who has the most caution,He only wins who goes far enough. Any thing is as good as established, when that is established…
Darest Thou Now, O Soul By Walt Whitman
Darest thou now, O Soul,Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region,Where neither ground is for the feet, nor any path to follow? No map,…
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry By Walt Whitman
Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face;Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face….