Thee for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, t… Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual t… Thy black cylindric body, golden brass a… Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and co…

Sauntering the pavement or riding the co… Faces of friendship, precision, caution,… The spiritual-prescient face, the always… The face of the singing of music, the gr… judges broad at the back-top,

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…

WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myse… What deepening twilight! scum floating a… Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, as… What a filthy Presidentiad! (O south, y… arctic freezings!)

NOW I make a leaf of Voices—for I hav… they are, And I have found that no word spoken, b… O what is it in me that makes me tremble… Surely, whoever speaks to me in the righ…

Others may praise what they like; But I, from the banks of the running Mi… aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere… prairie-scent,

TO ORATISTS—to male or female, Vocalism, measure, concentration, determ… to use words. Are you full-lung’d and limber-lipp’d fr… practice? from physique?

Out of the murk of heaviest clouds, Out of the feudal wrecks and heap’d-up s… Out of that old entire European debris,… Ruin’d cathedrals, crumble of palaces, t… Lo, Freedom’s features fresh undimm’d l…

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…

Unfolded out of the folds of the woman,… always to come unfolded; Unfolded only out of the superbest woman… superbest man of the earth; Unfolded out of the friendliest woman, i…

I doubt it not—then more, far more; In each old song bequeath’d—in every nob… (Different—something unreck’d before—som… In every object, mountain, tree, and sta… As part of each—evolv’d from each—meanin…