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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Book XX. By The Roadside: Roaming in Thought (After Reading Hegel)

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good
        steadily hastening towards immortality,
  And the vast all that is call’d Evil I saw hastening to merge itself
        and become lost and dead.

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Book XXIV. Autumn Rivulets: Unfolded Out of the Folds

Unfolded out of the folds of the w… always to come unfolded; Unfolded only out of the superbest… superbest man of the earth; Unfolded out of the friendliest wo…
Book XXXIV. Sands At Seventy: Small the Theme of My Chant

Small the theme of my Chant, yet… simple, separate person. That, for… Man’s physiology complete, from to… alone, nor brain alone, is worthy… Muse;—I say the Form complete is…
Book XXXII. From Noon to Starry Night: Weave In, My Hardy Life

Weave in, weave in, my hardy life, Weave yet a soldier strong and ful… Weave in red blood, weave sinews i… Weave lasting sure, weave day and… weave, tire not,
Book I. Inscriptions: Beginning my Studies

Beginning my studies the first ste… The mere fact consciousness, these… The least insect or animal, the se… The first step I say awed me and… I have hardly gone and hardly wish…
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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…
Book XXXIV. Sands At Seventy: Memories

How sweet the silent backward trac… The wanderings as in dreams—the me… their loves, joys, persons, voyage…
Book XXXV. Good-Bye My Fancy: Good-Bye My Fancy!

Good-bye my Fancy! Farewell dear mate, dear love! I’m going away, I know not where, Or to what fortune, or whether I… So Good-bye my Fancy.
One Sweeps By

ONE sweeps by, attended by an imm… All emblematic of peace—not a sold… One sweeps by, old, with black eye… He has the simple magnificence of… His face strikes as with flashes o…
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In paths untrodden, In the growth by margins of pond-w… Escaped from the lite that exhibit… From all the standards hitherto pu… conformities,
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Book XXXII. From Noon to Starry Night: Mediums

They shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, p… They shall illustrate Democracy a… They shall be alimentive, amative,… They shall be complete women and m…
Book XXX. Whispers of Heavenly Death: Night on the Prairies

Night on the prairies, The supper is over, the fire on th… The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt… I walk by myself—I stand and look… realized before.
Book V. Calamus: Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

Whoever you are holding me now in… Without one thing all will be usel… I give you fair warning before you… I am not what you supposed, but fa… Who is he that would become my fol…
Book XXII. Memories of President Lincoln: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

When lilacs last in the dooryard b… And the great star early droop’d i… I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn wit… Ever-returning spring, trinity sur… Lilac blooming perennial and droop…
Book XXI. Drum-Taps: Virginia—The West

The noble sire fallen on evil days… I saw with hand uplifted, menacing… (Memories of old in abeyance, love… The insane knife toward the Mothe… The noble son on sinewy feet advan…



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