O me, man of slack faith so long!Standing aloof–denying portions so long;Only aware to-day of compact, all-diffused truth;Discovering to-day there is no lie, or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,Or as any law of the earth, or any natural production of the…
Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats By Walt Whitman
Ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats!Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me!(For what is my life, or any man’s life, but a conflict…
Ages And Ages, Returning At Intervals By Walt Whitman
Ages and ages, returning at intervals,Undestroy’d, wandering immortal,Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,I, chanter of Adamic songs,Through the new garden, the West,…
After The Sea-Ship By Walt Whitman
After the Sea-Ship–after the whistling winds;After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,Tending in…
Adieu To A Solider By Walt Whitman
Adieu, O soldier!You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)The rapid march, the life of the camp,The hot contention of opposing fronts–the long manoeuver,Red battles…
Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 By Walt Whitman
To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer, a pulse of thought,To memory of Him, to birth of Him.
Aboard At A Ship’s Helm By Walt Whitman
Aboard, at a ship’s helm,A young steersman, steering with care. A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell–O a warning bell, rock’d by…
A Woman Waits For Me By Walt Whitman
A woman waits for me–she contains all, nothing is lacking,Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of theright man were…
A Song By Walt Whitman
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble;I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;I will make divine magnetic lands,With the…
A Sight In Camp By Walt Whitman
A sight in camp in the day-break grey and dim,As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,As slow I walk in the cool fresh…