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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Book XX. By The Roadside: Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour

Hast never come to thee an hour,
A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions,
wealth?
These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
To utter nothingness?

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Altre opere di Walt Whitman...
Book XXXII. From Noon to Starry Night: Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling

Thou orb aloft full-dazzling! thou… Flooding with sheeny light the gra… The sibilant near sea with vistas… And tawny streaks and shades and s… O sun of noon refulgent! my specia…
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Book IV. Children of Adam: Facing West From California’s Shores

Facing west, from California’s sh… Inquiring, tireless, seeking what… I, a child, very old, over waves,… land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my Western…
Book XX. By The Roadside: A Farm-Picture

Through the ample open door of the… A sunlit pasture field with cattle… And haze and vista, and the far ho…
Book V. Calamus: We Two Boys Together Clinging

We two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going—North… Power enjoying—elbows stretching—f… Arm’d and fearless—eating, drinkin…
Book XXXIV. Sands At Seventy: Death of General Grant

As one by one withdraw the lofty a… From that great play on history’s… That lurid, partial act of war and… Fought out through wrath, fears, d… All past—and since, in countless g…
So Far and So Far, and on Toward the End

SO far, and so far, and on toward… Singing what is sung in this book,… me; But whether I continue beyond thi… Whether I shall dart forth the tr…
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Book V. Calamus: Full of Life Now

Full of life, now, compact, visibl… I, forty years old the Eighty-thi… To one a century hence, or any num… To you, yet unborn, these, seeking… When you read these, I, that was…
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Book XXXIII. Songs Of Parting: Pensive on Her Dead Gazing

Pensive, on her dead gazing, I he… Desperate, on the torn bodies, on… battle-fields gazing; As she call’d to her earth with mo… stalk’d:
Book XXXV. Good-Bye My Fancy: To the Sun-Set Breeze

Ah, whispering, something again, u… Where late this heated day thou en… Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-… Me, old, alone, sick, weak-down, m… Thou, nestling, folding close and…
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The Great City

The place where a great city stand… Nor the place of ceaseless salutes… Nor the place of the tallest and c… Nor the place of the best librarie… Nor the place of the most numerous…
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Poem of Remembrance for a Girl Or a Boy

YOU just maturing youth! You mal… Remember the organic compact of T… Remember the pledge of the Old Th… life, liberty, equality of man, Remember what was promulged by the…
Apostroph

O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of might… O you teeming cities! O so invinc…
Book XXI. Drum-Taps: Rise O Days From Your Fathom-Less Deeps

Rise O days from your fathomless… Long for my soul hungering gymnast… Long I roam’d amid the woods of t… I travel’d the prairies over and s… Nevadas, I cross’d the plateaus,
Book XXXIV. Sands At Seventy: True Conquerors

Old farmers, travelers, workmen (n… Old sailors, out of many a perilou… Old soldiers from campaigns, with… Enough that they’ve survived at al… Forth from their struggles, trials…
Book IV. Children of Adam: A Woman Waits for Me

A Woman waits for me—she contains… Yet all were lacking, if sex were… right man were lacking. Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs,…
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