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Walt Whitman: As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
As If a Phantom Caress'd MeAs if a phantom caress'd me, I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore; But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved…Walt Whitman: A Noiseless Patient Spider
A Noiseless Patient SpiderA noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament,…Walt Whitman: To One Shortly to Die
To One Shortly to DieFrom all the rest I single out you, having a message for you, You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate, I am exact and merciless, but I…Walt Whitman: As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
As I Watch the Ploughman PloughingAs I watch'd the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting, I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies; (…Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 2
Part 2As a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think of thee America, Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.The conceits…Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 3
Part 3Brain of the New World, what a task is thine, To formulate the Modern—out of the peerless grandeur of the modern, Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art, (…Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 4
Part 4Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy, Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only, The Past is also stored in thee, Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the…Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 5
Part 5Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my eyes, Like a limitless golden cloud filling the westernr sky, Emblem of general maternity lifted above all, Sacred shape of the…Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 6
Part 6Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee, Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself, Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself…Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Mannahatta
MannahattaI was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical…Trending
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