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Passages from "The River Song"

Passages from "The River Song"Five clouds hang aloft, bright on the purple sky, The imperial guards come forth from the golden house with their armour a-gleaming.…He goes out to Hori, to…

Walt Whitman: First O Songs for a Prelude

First O Songs for a PreludeFirst O songs for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city, How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue, How at once with…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Banner at Daybreak

Song of the Banner at Daybreak Poet: O A new song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's voice and that of the drum, By the…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Answerer, Part 1

Part 1Now 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 sunshine before me.A young man comes to me bearing a message…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Answerer, Part 2

Part 2The indications and tally of time, Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs, Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts, What always indicates the poet is the crowd…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 1

Part 1(Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.)After all not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 2

Part 2Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia, Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts, That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and AEneas', Odysseus' wanderings, Placard "Removed…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 3

Part 3Responsive to our summons, Or rather to her long-nurs'd inclination, Join'd with an irresistible, natural gravitation, She comes! I hear the rustling of her gown, I scent the odor of…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 4

Part 4But hold—don't I forget my manners? To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia; In liberty's name welcome immortal! clasp hands, And ever…