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Walt Whitman: Tests
TestsAll submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul, Not traditions, not the outer authorities are the judges, They are the judges of outer…Walt Whitman: The Torch
The TorchOn my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands watching, Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing salmon, The canoe, a dim…Walt Whitman: The Sleepers
The SleepersPart 1I wander all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers, Wandering…Walt Whitman: Transpositions
TranspositionsLet the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands; Let judges and criminals be transposed—…Walt Whitman: Assurances
AssurancesI need no assurances, I am a man who is preoccupied of his own soul; I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking…Walt Whitman: Faces
FacesPart 1Sauntering the pavement or riding the country by-road, faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality, The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common…Walt Whitman: Excelsior
ExcelsiorWho has gone farthest? for I would go farther, And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth, And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious, And who…Walt Whitman: Mediums
MediumsThey shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness, They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos, They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive…Walt Whitman: Portals
PortalsWhat are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown? And what are those of life but for Death?Walt Whitman: These Carols
These CarolsThese carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see, For completion I dedicate to the Invisible World.