Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KOSMOS, by WALT WHITMAN


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First Line: Who includes diversity and is nature
Last Line: Inseparable together.
Subject(s): Nature


Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and
sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the
earth, and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for
nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers
for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most
majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism,
spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body
understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of
these States;
Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon,
but in other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for
a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space,
inseparable together.






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