Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, t… I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of grow… I hear the sound I love, the sound of t… I hear all sounds running together, comb…

O hymen! O hymenee! why do you tantaliz… O why sting me for a swift moment only? Why can you not continue? O why do you… Is it because if you continued beyond th… soon certainly kill me?

What think you I take my pen in hand to… The battle-ship, perfect-model’d, majest… offing to-day under full sail? The splendors of the past day? Or the s… envelopes me?

Turn O Libertad, for the war is over, From it and all henceforth expanding, do… sweeping the world, Turn from lands retrospective recording… From the singers that sing the trailing…

O to make the most jubilant song! Full of music-full of manhood, womanhood… Full of common employments-full of grain… O for the voices of animals-O for the s… O for the dropping of raindrops in a son…

Sea-beauty! stretch’d and basking! One side thy inland ocean laving, broad,… steamers, sails, And one the Atlantic’s wind caressing,… dark-gliding in the distance.

The wild gander leads his flock through… Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to m… The pert may suppose it meaningless, but… Find its purpose and place up there towa… The sharp-hoof’d moose of the north, the…

IN clouds descending, in midnight sleep… Of the look at first of the mortally wou… Of the dead on their backs, with arms ex… I dream, I dream, I dream. Of scenes of nature, the fields and the…

Is reform needed? Is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the great… to accomplish it. You! do you not see how it would serve t… complexion, clean and sweet?