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Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 15

Part 15The pure contralto sings in the organ loft, The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp, The married and unmarried children ride…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 16

Part 16I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 17

Part 17These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing, If they…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 18

Part 18With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.Have you heard that it was good…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 19

Part 19This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger, It is for the wicked just same as the righteous, I make appointments with all, I will not have a single person…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 20

Part 20Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?All I mark as my own you shall offset…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 21

Part 21I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 22

Part 22You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, We must have a turn…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 23

Part 23Endless unfolding of words of ages! And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 24

Part 24Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more…