#Americans #XIXCentury #1855 #LeavesOfGrass
As the time draws nigh glooming a cloud, A dread beyond of I know not what darke… I shall go forth, I shall traverse the States awhile, but… Perhaps soon some day or night while I…
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America always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida’s green peninsula! Alway… Louisiana! Always the cotton—fields of… Always California’s golden hills and ho…
I hear it was charged against me that I… But really I am neither for nor against… (What indeed have I in common with them… destruction of them?) Only I will establish in the Mannahatta…
Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet… Here I shade and hide my thoughts—I mys… And yet they expose me more than all my…
I heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the or… pass’d the church, Winds of autumn, as I walk’d the woods… stretch’d sighs up above so mournful, I heard the perfect Italian tenor singi…
Of Equality—as if it harm’d me, giving… rights as myself—as if it were not indis… that others possess the same.
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands—all my seashores l… Flag of death! (how I watch’d you throu… pressing! How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth…
A carol closing sixty-nine—a resume—a re… My lines in joy and hope continuing on t… Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom,… Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies,… Your aggregate retain’d entire—Of north…
They shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiol… They shall illustrate Democracy and the… They shall be alimentive, amative, perce… They shall be complete women and men, th…
Who learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman… The stupid and the wise thinker, parents… porter and customer, Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—dr…
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…
Hast never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bu… wealth? These eager business aims—books, politic… To utter nothingness?
To-day a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with its… Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves… as the eye can reach, Of dashing spray, and the winds piping a…
How solemn as one by one, As the ranks returning worn and sweaty,… As the faces the masks appear, as I gla… (As I glance upward out of this page st… you are,)
WOMEN sit, or move to and fro—some old… some young; The young are beautiful—but the old are… young.
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