Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On, on, ye jocund twain! Continue on the same! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life | ||||||||
ON, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one''"combining all, My single soul''"aims, confirmations, failures, joys''"Nor single soul alone, I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's) ''"the trial great, the victory gre A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats''" here at the west a voice triumphant''"justifying all, A gladsome pealing cry''"a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction; I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)''"An (My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread, I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter- cool'd the same;) As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love, Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions, On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD by MATTHEA HARVEY SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN MY LIFE: YET WE INSIST THAT LIFE IS FULL OF HAPPY CHANCE by LYN HEJINIAN CHAPTER HEADING by ERNEST HEMINGWAY PUNK HALF PANTHER by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA A CERTAIN MAN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA GREEN-STRIPED MELONS by JANE HIRSHFIELD LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN by JANE HIRSHFIELD A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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