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Walt Whitman: Assurances

AssurancesI need no assurances, I am a man who is preoccupied of his own soul; I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking…

Walt Whitman: Faces

FacesPart 1Sauntering the pavement or riding the country by-road, faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality, The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common…

Walt Whitman: Excelsior

ExcelsiorWho has gone farthest? for I would go farther, And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth, And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious, And who…

Walt Whitman: Mediums

MediumsThey shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness, They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos, They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive…

Walt Whitman: Portals

PortalsWhat are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown? And what are those of life but for Death?

Walt Whitman: These Carols

These CarolsThese carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see, For completion I dedicate to the Invisible World.

Walt Whitman: Mannahatta

MannahattaMy city's fit and noble name resumed, Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning, A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying…

Walt Whitman: Paumanok

PaumanokSea-beauty! stretch'd and basking! One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails, And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty…

Walt Whitman: America

AmericaCentre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law…

Walt Whitman: Memories

MemoriesHow sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed —their loves, joys, persons, voyages.