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Walt Whitman: Tears

TearsTears! tears! tears! In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate, Moist tears from…

Walt Whitman: Gods

GodsLover divine and perfect Comrade, Waiting content, invisible yet, but certain, Be thou my God.Thou, thou, the Ideal Man, Fair, able, beautiful, content, and loving, Complete in body and…

Walt Whitman: Germs

GermsForms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars, The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders as of…

Walt Whitman: Perfections

PerfectionsOnly themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

Walt Whitman: To a President

To a PresidentAll you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude,…

Walt Whitman: The Runner

The RunnerOn a flat road runs the well-train'd runner, He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs, He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs, With lightly closed fists and arms…

Walt Whitman: Visor'd

Visor'dA mask, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself, Concealing her face, concealing her form, Changes and transformations every hour, every moment, Falling upon her even when she sleeps…

Walt Whitman: Offerings

OfferingsA thousand perfect men and women appear, Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and youths, with offerings.

Walt Whitman: Not the Pilot

Not the PilotNot the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled; Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long, By deserts…

Walt Whitman: Reconciliation

ReconciliationWord over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly…