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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: Calamus

CalamusIn Paths UntroddenScented Herbage of My BreastWhoever You Are Holding Me Now in HandFor You, O DemocracyThese I Singing in SpringNot Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast OnlyOf the Terrible…

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,…

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: By the Roadside

By the RoadsideA Boston Ballad [1854]Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]A Hand-MirrorGodsGermsThoughtsWhen I Heard the Learn'd AstronomerPerfectionsO Me! O Life!To a PresidentI Sit…

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…