Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME, by WALT WHITMAN


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LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is to be enough for each of us that we are together—we never separate again
Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Conduct Of Life


Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me''"O if I could but obtain knowledge!
Then my lands the Land of the Prairies engrossed me''"the south savannas engrossed me''"For them I w
Then I met the examples of old and new heroes''"I heard the examples of warriors, sailors, and all d
And then to finish all, it came to me to strikeup the songs of the New World''"And then I believed m
But now take notice, Land of the prairies, land,
Take notice, you Kanuck woods''"and you, Lake Huron''"and all that with you roll toward Niagara''"an
And you, Californian mountains''"that you all find some one else that he be your singer of songs,
For I can be your singer of songs no longer ''" I have passed ahead I have ceased to enjoy them.
I have found him who loves me, as I him in perfect love,
With the rest I dispense''"I sever from all that I thought would suffice me, for it does not--it is
I heed knowledge, and the grandeur of The States, and the examples of heroes, no more,
I am indifferent to my own songs''"I am to go with him I love, and he is to go with me,
It is to be enough for each of us that we are together''"We never separate again.





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