The soothing sanity and blitheness of co… The pomp and hurried contest-glare and r… Now triumph! transformation! jubilate!
From east and west across the horizon’s… Two mighty masterful vessels sailers ste… But we’ll make race a-time upon the seas… lively there! (Our joys of strife and derring-do to th…
Have I no weapon-word for thee—some mes… (Have I fought out and done indeed the… For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns,… Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in… Down, down, proud gorge!—though choking…
I doubt it not—then more, far more; In each old song bequeath’d—in every nob… (Different—something unreck’d before—som… In every object, mountain, tree, and sta… As part of each—evolv’d from each—meanin…
After a long, long course, hundreds of y… Accumulations, rous’d love and joy and t… Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings,… Coating, compassing, covering—after ages… Then only may these songs reach fruition…
Add to your show, before you close it,… With all the rest, visible, concrete, te… and ores, Our sentiment wafted from many million h… (We grand-sons and great-grandsons do no…
Over and through the burial chant, Organ and solemn service, sermon, bendin… To me come interpolation sounds not in t… crowding up the aisle and from the windo… Of sudden battle’s hurry and harsh noise…
Ah, whispering, something again, unseen, Where late this heated day thou enterest… Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshi… Me, old, alone, sick, weak-down, melted-… Thou, nestling, folding close and firm y…
An ancient song, reciting, ending, Once gazing toward thee, Mother of All, Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee, Accept me, thou saidst, the elder ballad… And name for me before thou goest each a…
Welcome, Brazilian brother—thy ample pl… A loving hand—a smile from the north—a s… (Let the future care for itself, where i… Ours, ours the present throe, the democr… the faith;)
Sounds of the winter too, Sunshine upon the mountains—many a dista… From cheery railroad train—from nearer f… The whispering air—even the mute crops,… Children’s and women’s tones—rhythm of m…
As I sit in twilight late alone by the… Musing on long-pass’d war-scenes—of the… Of the vacant names, as unindented air’s… The brief truce after battle, with grim… trenches
When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the round imp… of day and night,) saying, He is mine; But out spake too the Soul of man, prou… Nay he is mine alone;
When his hour for death had come, He slowly rais’d himself from the bed on… Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings,… waist, Call’d for vermilion paint (his looking-…
A voice from Death, solemn and strange,… With sudden, indescribable blow—towns dr… thousands slain, The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwell… Dash’d pell-mell by the blow—yet usher’d…
For his o’erarching and last lesson the… In the fresh scent of the morning in the… On the slope of a teeming Persian rose-… Under an ancient chestnut-tree wide spre… Spoke to the young priests and students.
The commonplace I sing; How cheap is health! how cheap nobility! Abstinence, no falsehood, no gluttony, l… The open air I sing, freedom, toleratio… (Take here the mainest lesson—less from…
The devilish and the dark, the dying and… The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low… The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horri… Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous… (What is the part the wicked and the loa…
More experiences and sights, stranger, t… Times again, now mostly just after sunri… Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn,… plain sight, Camps far or near, the crowded streets o…
Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out… masses (even to expose them,) But add, fuse, complete, extend—and cele… To span vast realms of space and time, Evolution—the cumulative—growths and gen…
How dare one say it? After the cycles, poems, singers, plays, Vaunted Ionia’s, India’s –Homer, Shake… dotted roads, areas, The shining clusters and the Milky Ways…
Grand is the seen, the light, to me—gran… Grand is the earth, and grand are lastin… And grand their laws, so multiform, puzz… But grander far the unseen soul of me, c… (What were all those, indeed, without th…
Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well, Under the snow and ice, under the darkne… Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, com… Billions of billions, and trillions of t… (On earth and in the sea—the universe—th…
Good-bye my Fancy! Farewell dear mate, dear love! I’m going away, I know not where, Or to what fortune, or whether I may ev… So Good-bye my Fancy.
