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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Book XX. By The Roadside: Thought

Of justice—as If could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.

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Book XIX. Sea-Drift: Aboard at a Ship’s Helm

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COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take th… Yield closer and closer, and give… This is unfinish’d business with m… (I was chill’d with the cold types…
Book XXI. Drum-Taps: Lo Victress on the Peaks

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Book XIII: Song of the Exposition

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The big doors of the country barn… The dried grass of the harvest-tim… The clear light plays on the brown… The armfuls are pack’d to the sagg… I am there, I help, I came stretc…
Book XXXV. Good-Bye My Fancy: When the Full-Grown Poet Came

When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the rou… of day and night,) saying, He is m… But out spake too the Soul of man… Nay he is mine alone;
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Book XXX. Whispers of Heavenly Death: As If a Phantom Caress’d Me

As if a phantom caress’d me, I thought I was not alone, walkin… But the one I thought was with me… one I loved, that caress’d me, As I lean and look through the gl…
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TWO Rivulets side by side, Two blended, parallel, strolling t… Companions, travelers, gossiping a… For the Eternal Ocean bound, These ripples, passing surges, str…
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Book XXX. Whispers of Heavenly Death: Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours

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Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look there i… in large masses of men following t… men.
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Book V. Calamus: The Base of All Metaphysics

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