Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and t… the earth, and the great charity of the… Who has not look’d forth from the window… whose brain held audience with messenger…

Warble me now for joy of lilac-time, (re… Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature’s… Gather the welcome signs, (as children w… Put in April and May, the hylas croakin… Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its…

O sun of real peace! O Hastening light! O free and extatic! O what I here, prep… O the sun of the world will ascend, dazz… O so amazing and broad—up there resplend… O vision prophetic, stagger’d with weigh…

1 THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among ph… Time, always without flaw, indicates its… What always indicates the poet, is the c… pleasant company of singers, and their w…

City of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships! O the beautiful sharp-bow’d steam-ships… City of the world! (for all races are he… All the lands of the earth make contribu…

As the Greek’s signal flame, by antique… Rose from the hill-top, like applause an… Welcoming in fame some special veteran,… With rosy tinge reddening the land he’d… So I aloft from Mannahatta’s ship-fring…

1 AS nearing departure, As the time draws nigh, glooming, a clou… A dread beyond, of I know not what, dar… 2 I shall go forth, I shall traverse The States—but I cann…

After a long, long course, hundreds of y… Accumulations, rous’d love and joy and t… Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings,… Coating, compassing, covering—after ages… Then only may these songs reach fruition…

What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the t… Or coming in, to avoid the bars and foll… Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard th… Whom, in a little boat, putting off and…

We two, how long we were fool’d, Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Na… We are Nature, long have we been absent… We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots… We are bedded in the ground, we are rock…

THINK of the Soul; I swear to you that body of yours gives… somehow to live in other spheres; I do not know how, but I know it is so. Think of loving and being loved;

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

From east and west across the horizon’s… Two mighty masterful vessels sailers ste… But we’ll make race a-time upon the seas… lively there! (Our joys of strife and derring-do to th…

With its cloud of skirmishers in advance… With now the sound of a single shot snap… irregular volley, The swarming ranks press on and on, the… Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—…