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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Primeval my Love for the Woman I Love

PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love,
  O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, the
        thought of you!
  Then separate, as disembodied, the purest born,
  The ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
  I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man,
  O sharer of my roving life.

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Book XXXII. From Noon to Starry Night: Thick-Sprinkled Bunting

Thick-sprinkled bunting! flag of s… Long yet your road, fateful flag—l… bloody death, For the prize I see at issue at l… All its ships and shores I see in…
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In Former Songs

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Book XXXV. Good-Bye My Fancy: Old Chants

An ancient song, reciting, ending, Once gazing toward thee, Mother o… Musing, seeking themes fitted for… Accept me, thou saidst, the elder… And name for me before thou goest…
Book XXI. Drum-Taps: World Take Good Notice

World take good notice, silver sta… Milky hue ript, wet of white detac… Coals thirty-eight, baleful and bu… Scarlet, significant, hands off wa… Now and henceforth flaunt from the…
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Song of Myself, XXVIII

Is this then a touch? quivering me… Flames and ether making a rush for… Treacherous tip of me reaching and… My flesh and blood playing out lig… On all sides prurient provokers st…
Book XXIV. Autumn Rivulets: The Prairie States

A newer garden of creation, no pri… Dense, joyous, modern, populous mi… With iron interlaced, composite, t… By all the world contributed—freed… The crown and teeming paradise, so…
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Book XX. By The Roadside: Beautiful Women

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Book XXI. Drum-Taps: Adieu to a Soldier

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SAUNTERING the pavement, or r… road—lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, ca… ideality; The spiritual prescient face—the a…
Book I. Inscriptions: Eidolons

I met a seer, Passing the hues and objects of th… The fields of art and learning, pl… To glean eidolons. Put in thy chants said he,
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