I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung dow… Without any companion it grew there utte… And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, ma… But I wonder’d how it could utter joyou…
Passing stranger! you do not know how lo… You must be he I was seeking, or she I… I have somewhere surely lived a life of… All is recall’d as we flit by each other… You grew up with me, were a boy with me,…
This moment yearning and thoughtful, sit… It seems to me there are other men in ot… thoughtful; It seems to me I can look over and beho… France, Spain—or far, far away, in Chin…
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…
The prairie-grass dividing—its special o… I demand of it the spiritual correspondi… Demand the most copious and close compan… Demand the blades to rise of words, acts… Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, su…
When I peruse the conquer’d fame of her… mighty generals, I do not envy the gener… Nor the President in his Presidency, no… But when I hear of the brotherhood of l… How through life, through dangers, odium…
We two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going—North and S… Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers… Arm’d and fearless—eating, drinking, sle…
A promise to California, Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and… Sojourning east a while longer, soon I… to teach robust American love; For I know very well that I and robust…
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…
No labor-saving machine, Nor discovery have I made; Nor will I be able to leave behind me a… hospital or library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage,…
A Glimpse, through an interstice caught… Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a b… late of a winter night—And I unremark’d… Of a youth who loves me, and whom I lov… seating himself near, that he may hold m…
A Leaf for hand in hand! You natural persons old and young! You on the Mississippi, and on all the… Mississippi! You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You…
Earth, my likeness, Though you look so impassive, ample and… I now suspect that is not all; I now suspect there is something fierce… For an athlete is enamour’d of me, and…
I dream’d in a dream I saw a city invin… of the rest of the earth, I dream’d that was the new city of Frie… Nothing was greater there than the quali… It was seen every hour in the actions of…
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?
To the East and to the West; To the man of the Seaside State, and of… To the Kanadian of the North—to the So… These, with perfect trust, to depict you… all men;
Sometimes with one I love I fill myself… unreturn’d love, But now I think there is no unreturn’d… or another (I loved a certain person ardently and m…
Many things to absorb I teach to help y… Yet if blood like mine circle not in you… If you be not silently selected by lover…
Fast-anchor’d eternal O love! O woman… O bride! O wife! more resistless than I… Then separate, as disembodied or another… Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my… I ascend, I float in the regions of you…
Among the men and women, the multitude, I perceive one picking me out by secret… Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife… any nearer than I am; Some are baffled—But that one is not—th…
O you whom I often and silently come wh… with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or… you, Little you know the subtle electric fire…
That shadow my likeness that goes to and… chattering, chaffering, How often I find myself standing and lo… How often I question and doubt whether… But among my lovers and caroling these s…
Full of life, now, compact, visible, I, forty years old the Eighty-third Yea… To one a century hence, or any number of… To you, yet unborn, these, seeking you. When you read these, I, that was visibl…
O take my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and so… Such join’d unended links, each hook’d t… Each answering all—each sharing the eart… What widens within you, Walt Whitman?
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the o… Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading w… Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I mys… Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone…
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to… Clouds of the west—sun there half an hou… Crowds of men and women attired in the u… On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hund… And you that shall cross from shore to s…
Now list to my morning’s romanza, I tel… To the cities and farms I sing as they… A young man comes to me bearing a messag… How shall the young man know the whether… Tell him to send me the signs. And I st…
Always our old feuillage! Always Florida’s green peninsula—always… Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of A… Always California’s golden hills and ho… of New Mexico—always soft-breath’d Cuba…
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…
Weapon shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother’s bowels drawn, Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only o… Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve… Resting the grass amid and upon,
(Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God… The loving Laborer through space and ti… After all not to create only, or found o… But to bring perhaps from afar what is a…
A California song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought im… A chorus of dryads, fading, departing, o… A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out o… Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redw…
A song for occupations! In the labor of engines and trades and t… developments, And find the eternal meanings. Workmen and Workwomen!
A song of the rolling earth, and of word… Were you thinking that those were the wo… curves, angles, dots? No, those are not the words, the substan… and sea,
Youth, large, lusty, loving—youth full o… Do you know that Old Age may come after… fascination? Day full-blown and splendid-day of the i… laughter,
Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal. In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the s…
Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons r… Have you your pistols? have you your sha… Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot tarry here,
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking… I fear these supposed realities are to m… Even now your features, joys, speech, ho… Your true soul and body appear before me… They stand forth out of affairs, out of…
A great year and place A harsh discordant natal scream out-soun… heart closer than any yet. I walk’d the shores of my Eastern sea, Heard over the waves the little voice,
Myself and mine gymnastic ever, To stand the cold or heat, to take good… manage horses, to beget superb children, To speak readily and clearly, to feel at… And to hold our own in terrible position…
Year of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective some… I would sing your contest for the 19th… I would sing how an old man, tall, with… scaffold in Virginia,
With antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accu… With all which, had it not been, I woul… With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece an… With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the A…
Over the Western sea hither from Niphon… Courteous, the swart-cheek’d two-sworded… Leaning back in their open barouches, ba… Ride to-day through Manhattan. Libertad! I do not know whether others…
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the mu… Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the fields be… bed wander’d alone, bareheaded, barefoot…
As I ebb’d with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know, As I walk’d where the ripples continual… Where they rustle up hoarse and sibilant… Where the fierce old mother endlessly cr…
Tears! tears! tears! In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, s… Tears, not a star shining, all dark and… Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled h…
Thou who hast slept all night upon the s… Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions… (Burst the wild storm? above it thou asc… And rested on the sky, thy slave that cr… Now a blue point, far, far in heaven flo…
Aboard at a ship’s helm, A young steersman steering with care. Through fog on a sea-coast dolefully rin… An ocean-bell—O a warning bell, rock’d… O you give good notice indeed, you bell…
On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds…
The world below the brine, Forests at the bottom of the sea, the br… Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowe… openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, p…
On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro s… As I watch the bright stars shining, I… universes and of the future. A vast similitude interlocks all,
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…
Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high r… Steady the roar of the gale, with incess… Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully pie… Waves, air, midnight, their savagest tri… Out in the shadows there milk-white comb…
After the sea-ship, after the whistling… After the white-gray sails taut to their… Below, a myriad myriad waves hastening,… Tending in ceaseless flow toward the tra… Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling…
To get betimes in Boston town I rose th… Here’s a good place at the corner, I mu… Clear the way there Jonathan! Way for the President’s marshal—way for… Way for the Federal foot and dragoons,…
Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lai… Like lightning it le’pt forth half start… Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, it… O hope and faith! O aching close of exiled patriots’ lives…
Hold it up sternly—see this it sends bac… Outside fair costume, within ashes and f… No more a flashing eye, no more a sonoro… Now some slave’s eye, voice, hands, step… A drunkard’s breath, unwholesome eater’s…
Lover divine and perfect Comrade, Waiting content, invisible yet, but cert… Be thou my God. Thou, thou, the Ideal Man, Fair, able, beautiful, content, and lovi…
Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, langu… The ones known, and the ones unknown, th… The stars themselves, some shaped, other… Wonders as of those countries, the soil,… whatever they may be,
Of ownership—as if one fit to own things… upon all, and incorporate them into hims… Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere t… presuming the growth, fulness, life, now… (But I see the road continued, and the…
