Breadcrumb Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: What Place Is Besieged? Walt Whitman: What Place Is Besieged? Updated February 28, 2017 | Infoplease Staff What Place Is Besieged?What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun. Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman: Inscriptions Walt Whitman: Still Though the One I Sing .com/t/lit/leaves-of-grass/ch01s19.html Sources + Our Common Sources See also: Walt Whitman: The Mystic Trumpeter
Updated February 28, 2017 | Infoplease Staff What Place Is Besieged?What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun. Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman: Inscriptions Walt Whitman: Still Though the One I Sing .com/t/lit/leaves-of-grass/ch01s19.html Sources + Our Common Sources
