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Walt Whitman: Sea-Drift

Sea-DriftOut of the Cradle Endlessly RockingAs I Ebb'd with the Ocean of LifeTearsTo the Man-of-War-BirdAboard at a Ship's HelmOn the Beach at NightThe World below the BrineOn the Beach at…

Walt Whitman: To a Historian

To a HistorianYou who celebrate bygones, Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself, Who have treated of man as the creature of politics…

Walt Whitman: Eidolons

Eidolons 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 he, No more the…

Walt Whitman: Beginners

BeginnersHow they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,) How dear and dreadful they are to the earth, How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox…

Walt Whitman: To the States

To the StatesTo the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation,…

Walt Whitman: Savantism

SavantismThither as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated, Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments,…

Walt Whitman: To a Stranger

To a StrangerPassing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,) I have somewhere surely…

Walt Whitman: A Glimpse

A GlimpseA glimpse through an interstice caught, Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner, Of a youth…

Walt Whitman: With Antecedents

With AntecedentsPart 1With antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages, With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am, With Egypt, India,…