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Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 5

Part 5Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language-shapers on other shores, Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate, I…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 6

Part 6The soul, Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows. I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 7

Part 7I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith.Omnes! omnes! let others ignore what they may, I…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 8

Part 8What are you doing young man? Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours? These ostensible realities, politics, points? Your ambition or business whatever it…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 9

Part 9What do you seek so pensive and silent? What do you need camerado? Dear son do you think it is love?Listen dear son—listen America, daughter or son, It is a painful thing to love a man…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 10

Part 10 Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion, The following chants each for its kind I sing. My comrade! For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 11

Part 11As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk, I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.I have seen the he-bird also, I have…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 12

Part 12Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us, For those who belong here and those to come, I…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 13

Part 13Was somebody asking to see the soul? See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.All hold spiritual joys…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 14

Part 14Whoever you are, to you endless announcements!Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet? Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand? Toward the male of the…