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Walt Whitman: MY 71st Year

MY 71st YearAfter surmounting three-score and ten, With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows, My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war…

Walt Whitman: Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's

Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death'sFrom east and west across the horizon's edge, Two mighty masterful vessels sailers steal upon us: But we'll make race a-time upon the seas—a battle-contest…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 10

Part 10I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries, I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi. I see African and Asiatic towns, I see…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 11

Part 11You whoever you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 12

Part 12You Hottentot with clicking palate! you woolly-hair'd hordes! You own'd persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops! You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 13

Part 13My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth, I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Part 1

Part 1Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Part 2

Part 2You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe that much unseen is also here.Here the profound lesson of reception, nor preference nor…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Part 3

Part 3You air that serves me with breath to speak! You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape! You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Part 4

Part 4The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part in its best light, The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted, The…