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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: whitman, walt Matches Found: 482 Whitman, Walt Poet's Biography 482 poems available by this author A BOSTON BALLAD Poem Text First Line: To get betimes in boston town I rose this morning early Last Line: You are mighty cute -- and here is one of your bargains. Subject(s): Boston A BROADWAY PAGEANT Poem Text First Line: Over the western sea hither from niphon Last Line: They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake libertad. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE Poem Text First Line: A carol closing sixty-nine - a resume - a repetition Last Line: The undiminish'd faith -- the groups of loving friends. Subject(s): Old Age A CHILD'S AMAZE Poem Text First Line: Silent and amazed even when a little boy Last Line: As contending against some being or influence. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHRISTMAS GREETING; FROM A NORTHERN START-GROUP TO A SOUTHERN Poem Text First Line: Welcome, brazilian brother - thy ample place is ready Last Line: The height to be superb humanity. Subject(s): Brazil; Christmas; Brazilians; Nativity, The A CLEAR MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: This is thy hour, o soul, thy free flight into the wordless Last Line: Night, sleep, death and the stars. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A FARM PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn Last Line: And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away. Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A FONT OF TYPE Poem Text First Line: This latent mine - these unlaunch'd voices - passionate powers Last Line: Within the pallid slivers slumbering. A GLIMPSE Poem Text First Line: A glimpse, through an interstice caught Last Line: Little, perhaps not a word. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Men; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A HAND-MIRROR Poem Text First Line: Hold it up sternly -- see this it sends back, (who is it? Is it you?) Last Line: Such a result so soon -- and from such a beginning! Subject(s): Hate; Mirrors A KISS TO THE BRIDE; MARRIAGE OF NELLY GRANT, MAY 21, 1874 Poem Text First Line: Sacred, blithesome, undenied Last Line: Unto a nation's loving kiss. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LEAF FOR HAND IN HAND Poem Text Last Line: I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mississipi River A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD-PREST AND THE ROAD UNKNOWN A NOISELESS, PATIENT SPIDER A PAUMANOK PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still Last Line: The water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers. A PERSIAN LESSON Poem Text First Line: For his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi Last Line: "latent the same in subject and in object, without one exception." A PRAIRIE SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling Last Line: Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A PROMISE TO CALIFORNIA A RIDDLE SONG Poem Text First Line: That which eludes this verse and any verse Last Line: And heaven at last for it. Subject(s): Riddles A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK GRAY AND DIM A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS Poem Text Last Line: I do of men and women like you Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Business; United States – Politics & Government A SONG OF JOYS Poem Text First Line: O to make the most jubilant song! Last Line: A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH Poem Text First Line: A song of the rolling earth, and of words according Last Line: You shall be fully glorified in them. A THOUGHT OF COLUMBUS Poem Text First Line: The mystery of mysteries, the crude and harried ceaseless flame Last Line: The modern world to thee and thought of thee!) Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers A TWILIGHT SONG Poem Text First Line: As I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak flame, Last Line: Embalm'd with love in this twilight song. A VOICE FROM DEATH Poem Text First Line: A voice from death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power Last Line: In which and upon which we float, and every one of us is buoy'd. Subject(s): Johnstown Flood (1889) A VOICE PROPHETIC Poem Text First Line: Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice Last Line: Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.) Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Patriotism; United States - History A WOMAN WAITS FOR ME Poem Text First Line: A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking Last Line: Immortality, I plant so lovingly now. ABOARD AT A SHIP'S HELM ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BORN FEB. 12, 1809 Poem Text First Line: To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer - a pulse of thought Last Line: To memory of him -- to birth of him. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ADIEU TO A SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: Adieu o soldier Last Line: To fiercer, weightier battles give expression. Subject(s): Soldiers AFTER AN INTERVAL Poem Text First Line: After an interval, reading, here in the midnight Last Line: And the duo of saturn and mars! AFTER THE DAZZLE OF DAY IS GONE Poem Text Last Line: Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true Subject(s): Night AFTER THE SEA-SHIP, AFTER THE WHISTLING WINDS AFTER THE SUPPER AND TALK Poem Text First Line: After the supper and talk - after the day is done Last Line: Garrulous to the very last. AGAIN THEY SURROUND THEE First Line: Of olden time, when it came to pass Last Line: And still iscariot plies his trade Subject(s): Justice; Social Protest AGES AND AGES RETURNING AT INTERVALS Poem Text Last Line: Offspring of my loins Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS Poem Text Last Line: It shall yet stand up the soldier of ultimate victory Subject(s): Enemies ALL IS TRUTH Poem Text First Line: O me, man of slack faith so long Last Line: And sing and laugh and deny nothing. Subject(s): Truth AMERICA Poem Text First Line: Centre of equal daughters, equal sons Last Line: Chair'd in the adamant of time. Subject(s): United States; America AMERICA TO THE OLD WORLD BARDS First Line: Be thy task for once to thank in my name, the Last Line: Let the procession pass -- let the shadow walk %through the very soul AMONG THE MULTITUDE Poem Text First Line: Among the men and women the multitude, Last Line: And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you. AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH Poem Text First Line: With its cloud of skirmishers in advance Last Line: As the army corps advances. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History AN ENDED DAY Poem Text First Line: The soothing sanity and blitheness of completion Last Line: Now triumph! Transformation! Jubilate! AN EVENING LULL Poem Text First Line: After a week of physical anguish Last Line: Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness APPARITIONS Poem Text First Line: A vague mist hanging 'round half the pages Last Line: That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities.) ARE YOU THE NEW PERSON DRAWN TOWARD ME? Poem Text Last Line: Have you no thought, o dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion? Subject(s): Relationships AS A STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE First Line: Beautiful world of new, suberber birth, that rises to my eyes Subject(s): Freedom; Justice AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING AS AT THY PORTALS ALSO DEATH AS CONSEQUENT FROM STORE OF SUMMER RAINS AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO Poem Text Last Line: Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quell'd and defeated Subject(s): Confessions AS I PONDERED IN SILENCE Poem Text Last Line: I above all promote brave soldiers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soldiers AS I SIT WRITING HERE Poem Text First Line: As I sit writing here, sick and grown old Last Line: May filter in my daily songs. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets AS I WALK THESE BROAD MAJESTIC DAYS OF PEACE Poem Text Last Line: And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any Subject(s): Reality AS I WATCH'D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS'D ME Poem Text Last Line: And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me Subject(s): Love – Loss Of AS THE GREEK'S SIGNAL FLAME Poem Text First Line: As the greek's signal flame, by antique records told Last Line: Lift high a kindled brand for thee, old poet. Subject(s): Birthdays; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) AS THE TIME DRAWS NIGH Poem Text First Line: As the time draws nigh glooming a cloud Last Line: O soul, we have positively appear'd -- that is enough. AS THEY DRAW TO A CLOSE Poem Text Last Line: With you o soul Subject(s): Death AS TOILSOME I WANDER'D VIRGINIA'S WOODS ASHES OF SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: Ashes of soldiers south or north Last Line: For the ashes of all dead soldiers south or north. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History ASPOSTROPH Poem Text First Line: O mater! O fils! Last Line: O poets to come, I depend upon you! ASSURANCES Poem Text First Line: I need no assurances, I am a man who is Last Line: Space, but I believe heavenly death provides for all. BARROW First Line: Our brittle bones were chilled to envy Last Line: Above our age's burial mound Subject(s): Environment; Fields BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME Poem Text First Line: Bathed in war's perfume - delicate flag! Last Line: Flag like the eyes of women. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! Poem Text Recitation First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young Last Line: Than the young. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women BEGINNERS Poem Text First Line: How they are provided for upon the earth Last Line: The same great purchase. BEGINNING MY STUDIES Poem Text First Line: Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much Last Line: But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs. BEHOLD THIS SWARTHY FACE Poem Text First Line: Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes Last Line: We are those two natural and nonchalant persons. BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE Poem Text First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BOSTON BALLAD (DIFFERENT VERSION) First Line: Clear the way there jonathan! Last Line: You are mighty cute - and here is one of your bargains BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION! Poem Text First Line: Add to your show, before you close it, france Last Line: America's applause, love, memories and good-will. Subject(s): Exhibitions; Paris, France; World's Fairs; Expositions BROADWAY Poem Text First Line: What hurrying human tides, or day or night! Last Line: Thou visor'd, vast, unspeakable show and lesson! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE Poem Text First Line: By blue ontario's shore, / as I mused of these warlike days & of peace return'd Last Line: You by my charm I invoke. Variant Title(s): As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shore Subject(s): Democracy; Poetry & Poets; United States; America BY BROAD POTOMAC'S SHORE Poem Text First Line: By broad potomac's shore, again old tongue Last Line: O deathless grass, of you! Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME CAMPS OF GREEN Poem Text First Line: Not alone those camps of white, old comrades of wars Last Line: Nor drummer to beat the morning drum. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History CAROL [SONG] OF OCCUPATIONS', SELS. Subject(s): Justice CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD Poem Text First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC Poem Text First Line: Chanting the square deific, out of the one advancing, out of the sides Last Line: Breathe my breath also through these songs. CITY OF ORGIES Poem Text First Line: City of orgies, walks and joys Last Line: Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me. Subject(s): Americans; United States; America CITY OF SHIPS! COME CLOSER TO ME Last Line: Not a day passes - not a minute or second without a corpse COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son. Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America CONTINUITIES Poem Text First Line: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost Last Line: With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face Last Line: Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul. Subject(s): Americans; Brooklyn, New York; Ferry Boats; United States; America DAREST THOU NOW O SOUL DEATH First Line: One lovely and soothing death Subject(s): Death DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT Poem Text First Line: As one by one withdraw the lofty actors Last Line: To admiration has it been enacted! Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) DEATH'S VALLEY Poem Text First Line: Nay, do not dream, designer dark Last Line: Sweet, peaceful, welcome death. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Inness, George (1825-1894); Paintings & Painters; Religion; Theology DEBRIS Poem Text First Line: He is wisest who has the most caution Last Line: And those appear that perplex me. DELICATE CLUSTER! FLAG OF TEEMING LIFE! DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS Poem Text First Line: The last sunbeam / lightly falls from the finish'd sabbath Last Line: My heart gives you love. Variant Title(s): Two Veterans Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans; Declaration Day EARTH, MY LIKENESS EIDOLONS Poem Text First Line: I met a seer Last Line: A round full-orb'd eidolon. EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE Poem Text First Line: Arm'd year - year of the struggle Last Line: I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History EIGHTEENTH PRESIDENCY, SELS. Subject(s): Social Protest ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884 Poem Text First Line: If I should need to name, o western world, your powerfulest scene and show Last Line: Swell'd washington's, jefferson's, lincoln's sails. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 1 Poem Text First Line: As I ebbed with the ocean of life Last Line: As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types. Variant Title(s): As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life: 3;as I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life: 1 ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 2 Poem Text First Line: As I wend the shore I know not Last Line: Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all. Variant Title(s): As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life: 2 ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 3 Poem Text First Line: You oceans both, I close with you Last Line: Murmuring I envy. ELEMENTAL DRIFTS: 4 Poem Text First Line: Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return) Last Line: Whoever you are, we too lie in drifts at your feet. Variant Title(s): As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life: 4 EPITAPH FOR LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: This dust was once the man Last Line: Was saved the union of these states. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS Poem Text First Line: Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human Last Line: Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES Poem Text First Line: Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves Last Line: He will soon return, his messengers come anon. Subject(s): Europe EXCELSIOR Poem Text First Line: Who has gone farthest? For I would go farther Last Line: Devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth. FACES Poem Text First Line: Sauntering the pavement or riding the country by-road Last Line: The justified mother of men. Subject(s): Faces FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORES FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 1. THE PILOT IN THE MIST Poem Text First Line: Steaming the northern rapids - (an old st. Lawrence reminiscence) Last Line: Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 2 Poem Text First Line: Had I the choice to tally greatest bards Last Line: And leave its odor there. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 3 Poem Text First Line: You tides with ceaseless swell! You power that does this work! Last Line: Sailing in a ship? FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 4 Poem Text First Line: Last of ebb, and daylight waning Last Line: On for your time, ye furious debouche! FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 5 Poem Text First Line: And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb Last Line: The rhythmus of birth eternal. FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 6 Poem Text First Line: Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing Last Line: Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 7 Poem Text First Line: By that long span of waves, myself call'd back, resumed upon myself Last Line: Like one of yours, ye multitudinous ocean. Subject(s): Aging FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 8 Poem Text First Line: Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill Last Line: The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song. FAST ANCHOR'D ETERNAL O LOVE! Poem Text First Line: Fast-anchor'd eternal o love! O woman I love! Last Line: O sharer of my roving life. Subject(s): Love FOR HIM I SING Poem Text Last Line: To make himself by them the law unto himself Subject(s): Praise FOR THE INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY Poem Text First Line: An old man's thought of school Last Line: To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school. Subject(s): Camden, New Jersey; Memory; Old Age; Schools; Students FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY Poem Text First Line: Come, I will make the continent indissoluble Last Line: For you, for you I am trilling these songs. Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Patriotism; Liberty FRANCE; THE 18TH YEAR OF THESE STATES Poem Text First Line: A great year and place Last Line: I will yet sing a song for you ma femme. Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty FROM FAR DAKOTA'S CANONS; JUNE 25, 1876 Poem Text Last Line: Thou yieldest up thyself Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battler Of FROM MONTAUK POINT Poem Text First Line: I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak Last Line: Seeking the shores forever. Subject(s): Montauk Point, Long Island (new York) FROM MY LAST YEARS Poem Text First Line: From my last years, last thoughts I here bequeath Last Line: For time to germinate fully. FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS FULL OF LIFE NOW Poem Text First Line: Full of life now, compact, visible Last Line: Now with you.) Subject(s): Life GERMS Poem Text First Line: Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts Last Line: Germs of all. GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN Poem Text First Line: Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling Last Line: Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. Subject(s): New York City; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GLIDING O'ER ALL, THROUGH ALL Poem Text Last Line: Death, many deaths I'll sing Subject(s): Death GODS (1) First Line: Thought of the infinite- the all! Subject(s): Science GODS (2) Poem Text First Line: Lover divine and perfect comrade Last Line: Be ye my gods. Subject(s): God GOING SOMEWHERE' Poem Text First Line: My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend Last Line: All bound as is befitting each—all surely going somewhere Subject(s): Life; Knowledge GOOD-BYE MY FANCY! Poem Text Recitation First Line: Good-bye my fancy! / farewell dear mate, dear love! Last Line: Good-bye -- and hail! My fancy. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GRAND IS THE SEEN Poem Text First Line: Grand is the seen, the light, to me - grand are the sky and stars Last Line: More multiform far -- more lasting thou than they. Subject(s): Religion; Theology GREAT ARE THE MYTHS Poem Text First Line: Great are the myths - I too delight in them Last Line: Has life much purport? -- ah, death has the greatest purport. GREAT IS JUSTICE Subject(s): Justice HALCYON DAYS Poem Text First Line: Not from successful love alone Last Line: The brooding and blissful halcyon days! Subject(s): Aging HAST NEVER COME TO THEE AN HOUR Poem Text Last Line: To utter nothingness? Subject(s): Nothingness HERE THE FRAILEST LEAVES OF ME Poem Text First Line: Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting Last Line: And yet they expose me more than all my other poems. HOURS CONTINUING LONG, SORE AND HEAVY-HEARTED Poem Text Last Line: Does he see himself reflected in me? In these hours, does he see the face of his hours reflected? Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships; Time HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865) Poem Text First Line: How solemn as one by one Last Line: Nor the bayonet stab o friend. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TODAY I AM AN ACME OF THINGS ACCOMPLISHED Subject(s): Nature I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH AMOROUS LOVE I AM THE POET First Line: I am the poet of reality Last Line: Nor any part of it a sham I DREAMED IN A DREAM I SAW A CITY INVINCIBLE I HEAR AMERICA SINGING Poem Text Recitation First Line: I hear america singing, the varied carols I hear Last Line: Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. Subject(s): Americans; Labor & Laborers; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; United States; Work; Workers; Songs; America I HEARD YOUR SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES Poem Text First Line: I heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last sunday morn I passed church Last Line: Bells last night under my ear. Subject(s): Love I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING I SAW OLD GENERAL AT BAY I SAW THE VISION OF ARMIES Subject(s): War I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC Poem Text First Line: I sing the body electric / the armies of those I love engirth me Last Line: O I say now these are the soul! I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (DIFFERENT VERSION) First Line: The bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them Last Line: Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed I SIT AND LOOK OUT Poem Text First Line: I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression Last Line: See, hear, and am silent. Subject(s): Evil; Social Protest I STAND AND LOOK First Line: I stand and look in the dark under a Last Line: I see the glistening of the waters %in the distance I TOO MANY AND MANY A TIME CROSS'D THE RIVER OF OLD Subject(s): Birds I WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE Poem Text First Line: I was looking a long while for intentions Last Line: All for the modern -- all for the average man of to-day. IN CABIN'D SHIPS AT SEA IN FORMER SONGS Poem Text First Line: In former songs pride have I sung, and love, and passionate, joyful life Last Line: For my last stand -- my pealing, final cry. Subject(s): Old Age IN PATHS UNTRODDEN Poem Text Last Line: To celebrate the need of comrades Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Soul IN PRAISE OF DEATH First Line: Praise be the fathomless universe Subject(s): Death IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS Poem Text Last Line: You, born years, centuries after me, I seek Subject(s): Modern Life; Time INTERPOLATION SOUNDS Poem Text First Line: Over and through the burial chant Last Line: The sound of horses' hoofs departing -- saddles, arms, accoutrements. Subject(s): Funerals; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); Burials ITALIAN MUSIC IN DAKOTA (THE SEVENTEENTH - THE FINEST REGIMENTAL BAND) Poem Text First Line: Through the soft evening air enwinding all Last Line: Listens well pleas'd. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras JOY, SHIPMATE, JOY! KEEP HEART, O COMRADE, GOD MAY BE DELAYED KOSMOS Poem Text First Line: Who includes diversity and is nature Last Line: Inseparable together. Subject(s): Nature L. OF G.'S PURPORT Poem Text First Line: Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out Last Line: Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LAWS FOR CREATIONS Poem Text Last Line: And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws? Subject(s): Creative Ability LEAVES OF GRASS (1855 EDITION) LEAVES OF GRASS': TITLE PAGE Poem Text First Line: Come, said my soul Last Line: Singing for soul and body, set to them my name Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LESSON OF A TREE First Line: I should not take either the biggest or the most picturesque Subject(s): Animals LESSONS Poem Text First Line: There are who teach only the sweet lessons of peace and safety Last Line: That they readily meet invasions, when they come. LIFE Poem Text First Line: Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man Last Line: Struggling to-day the same -- battling the same. LIFE AND DEATH Poem Text First Line: The two old, simple problems ever intertwined Last Line: To ours to-day -- and we pass on the same. LINGERING LAST DROPS Poem Text First Line: And whence and why come you? Last Line: To make the passing shower's concluding drops. LIVE OAK, WITH MOSS First Line: Not the heat flames up and consumes Last Line: But if through him speed not the blood of friendship, hot and red ... To seek to become eleve of min Subject(s): Homosexuality LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS Poem Text Last Line: And psalms of the dead Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LOCATIONS AND TIMES Poem Text First Line: Locations and times - what is it in me that meets them all Last Line: Corresponds with them? LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME Poem Text 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, LONG HENCE Poem Text First Line: After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials Last Line: Then only may these songs reach fruition. LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON AND BATHE THIS SCENE MANAHATTA Poem Text First Line: My city's fit and noble name resumed Last Line: Coming, going, hurrying sea waves. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN ARMING Poem Text First Line: First o songs for a prelude Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta. Variant Title(s): Drum-taps Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History MANNAHATTA Poem Text Recitation First Line: I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city Last Line: City nested in bays! My city! Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ME IMPERTURBE Poem Text First Line: Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature, Last Line: Rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. MEDIUMS Poem Text First Line: They shall arise in the states Last Line: Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd. Subject(s): Democracy MEMORIES Poem Text First Line: How sweet the silent backward tracings! Last Line: Resumed -- their loves, joys, persons, voyages. MIRACLES Poem Text First Line: Why, who makes much of a miracle? Last Line: What stranger miracle are there? Subject(s): Miracles MIRAGES Poem Text First Line: More experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for Last Line: Or plainly there to the left on the hill-tops. MOTHER AND BABE Poem Text First Line: I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother Last Line: The sleeping mother and babe -- hush'd, I study them long and long. Subject(s): Mothers MY 71ST YEAR Poem Text First Line: After surmounting three-score and ten Last Line: Reporting yet, saluting yet the officer over all. Subject(s): Old Age MY CANARY BIRD Poem Text First Line: Did we count great, o soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books Last Line: Is it not just as great, o soul? Subject(s): Canaries MY LEGACY Poem Text First Line: The business man the acquirer vast Last Line: I bind together and bequeath in this bundle of songs. Subject(s): Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen MY PICTURE-GALLERY Poem Text First Line: In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house, Last Line: With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MYSELF AND MINE GYMNASTIC EVER Last Line: I perceive I have no time to lose Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NATIVE MOMENTS Poem Text First Line: Native moments -- when you come upon me -- ah you are here now, Last Line: I will be more to you than to any of the rest. NAY, TELL ME NOT TO-DAY THE PUBLISH'D SHAME Poem Text Last Line: All day to these give audience Subject(s): Newspapers; United States NIGHT ON THE PRAIRIES NO LABOR-SAVING MACHINE NOT HEAT FLAMES UP AND CONSUMES Last Line: Wafted in all directions o love, for friendship, for you Subject(s): Nature; Love; Seeking NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST ONLY Poem Text Last Line: Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs Subject(s): Despair; Anger NOT MEAGRE, LATENT BOUGHS ALONE Poem Text First Line: Not meagre, latent boughs alone, o songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons) Last Line: And love and faith, like scented roses blooming. NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME Poem Text First Line: Not my enemies ever invade me - no harm to my pride from them I fear Last Line: Utterly abject, grovelling on the ground before them. NOT THE PILOT Poem Text First Line: Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship to port Last Line: For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME Poem Text Last Line: Composed these songs Subject(s): Self; Poetry & Poets NOW FINALE TO THE SHORE NOW LIFT ME CLOSE First Line: Now lift me close to your face till I whisper Last Line: Whoever you are, I give it especially to you; %so long! And I hope we shall meet again NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Now precedent songs, farewell -- by every name farewell Last Line: What wretched shred e'en at the best of all!) Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! Poem Text Recitation First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean O HYMEN! O HYMENEE! Poem Text First Line: O hymen! O hymenee! Why do you tantalize me thus? Last Line: Would soon certainly kill me? O LIVING ALWAYS, ALWAYS DYING! Poem Text Last Line: To pass on, (o living! Always living!) and leave the corpses behind Subject(s): Mortality; Death O MAGNET-SOUTH Poem Text First Line: O magnet-south! O glistening perfumed south! My south! Last Line: Tennessee and never wander more. Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.) O ME! O LIFE! Poem Text First Line: O me! O life! Of the questions of these recurring Last Line: That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. O STAR OF FRANCE O SUN OF REAL PEACE Poem Text First Line: O sun of real peace! O hastening light! Last Line: May, to you. O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY O YOU WHOM I OFTEN AND SILENTLY COME Poem Text First Line: O you whom I often and silently come when you are that I may be with you Last Line: Is playing within me. Subject(s): Love OF HIM I LOVE DAY AND NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Of him I love day and night, I dream'd I heard he was dead Last Line: Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied. OF MANY A SMUTCH'D DEED REMINISCENT Poem Text First Line: Full of wickedness, I - of many a smutch'd deed reminiscent - of worse deeds Last Line: Because of his boundless love for me. Subject(s): Love OF THAT BLITHE THROAT OF THINE FROM ARTIC BLEAK AND BLANK OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES OF THE VISAGES OF THINGS Poem Text First Line: Of the visages of things - and of piercing through to accepted hells beneath Last Line: The president is also. OFFERINGS Poem Text First Line: A thousand perfect men and women appear Last Line: And youths, with offerings. OLD AGE'S LAMBENT PEAKS Poem Text First Line: The touch of flame - the illuminating fire - the loftiest look at last Last Line: The lights indeed from them -- old age's lambent peaks. Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE'S SHIP AND CRAFTY DEATH'S Poem Text First Line: From east and west across the horizon's edge Last Line: As we take to the open! Take to the deepest, freest waters. OLD CHANTS Poem Text First Line: An ancient song, reciting, ending Last Line: Thou enterest at thy entrance porch. Subject(s): Singing & Singers OLD IRELAND Poem Text First Line: Far hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty Last Line: Moves to-day in a new country. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish OLD SALT KOSSABONE Poem Text First Line: Far back, related on my mother's side, Last Line: Dutch kossabone, old salt, related on my mother's side, far back. OLD WAR-DREAMS Poem Text First Line: In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish Last Line: I dream, I dream, I dream. Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; United States - History; Nightmares ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES Poem Text First Line: On journeys through the states we start Last Line: And may be just as much as the seasons. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE ON THE SAME PICTURE (DEATH'S VALLEY) Poem Text First Line: Aye, well I know 'tis ghastly to descend that valley Last Line: Here, here 'tis limn'd. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Inness, George (1825-1894); Paintings And Painters ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN! Poem Text Last Line: On, on, ye jocund twain! Continue on the same! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY Poem Text First Line: Once I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for Last Line: I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous. Subject(s): Men ONE HOUR TO MADNESS AND JOY Poem Text First Line: One hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! Last Line: With one brief hour of madness and joy. ONE'S-SELF I SING Poem Text First Line: One's-self I sing, a simple separate person Last Line: The modern man I sing. Subject(s): Self ORANGE BUDS BY MAIL FROM FLORIDA Poem Text First Line: A lesser proof than old voltaire's, yet greater Last Line: A bunch of orange buds by mail from florida. Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De OSCEOLA Poem Text First Line: When his hour for death had come Last Line: (and here a line in memory of his name and death.) Subject(s): Native Americans; Osceola, Leader Of Seminoles (1804-1838); Social Protest; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OTHERS MAY PRAISE WHAT THEY LIKE Poem Text Last Line: And fully exudes it again Subject(s): Praise; Criticism & Critics OUR OLD FEUILLAGE Poem Text First Line: Always our old feuillage! Last Line: Collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these states? Subject(s): United States; America OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK Poem Text First Line: Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask Last Line: Then travel, travel on. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers OUT OF MAY'S SHOWS SELECTED Poem Text First Line: Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms Last Line: The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers. Subject(s): Spring OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN THE CROWD Poem Text First Line: Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came to a drop gently to me Last Line: Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love. OUTLINES FOR A TOMB (G.P., BURIED 1870) Poem Text First Line: What may we chant, o thou within this tomb? Last Line: But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones PASSAGE TO INDIA Poem Text First Line: Singing my days Last Line: O farther, farther, farther sail! Subject(s): India PATROLING BARNEGAT Poem Text First Line: Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running Last Line: That savage trinity warily watching. Variant Title(s): Patrolling Barnegat Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Sea; Storms; Ocean PAUMANOK Poem Text First Line: Sea-beauty! Stretch'd and basking! Last Line: Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine! PENSIVE AND FALTERING Poem Text Last Line: And I the apparition, I the spectre Subject(s): Death PENSIVE ON HER DEAD GAZING Poem Text First Line: Pensive on her dead gazing I heard the mother of all Last Line: Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence. PERFECTIONS Poem Text First Line: Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves Last Line: As souls only understand souls. PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! Poem Text Recitation First Line: Come my tan-faced children Last Line: Pioneers! O pioneers! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States POEM OF JOYS, SELS. First Line: O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged! It darts POEM OF REMEMBRANCE FOR A GIRL OR A BOY OF THESE STATES Poem Text First Line: You just maturing youth! You male or female! Last Line: Do you see death, and the approach of death? Subject(s): Youth POETS TO COME Poem Text First Line: Poets to come! Orators, singers, musicians to come! Last Line: Expecting the main things from you. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PORTALS Poem Text First Line: What are those of the known but to ascend and enter the unknown? Last Line: And what are those of life but for death? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PRAYER OF COLUMBUS Poem Text First Line: A batter'd, wreck'd old man Last Line: And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Religion; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN Poem Text First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM Poem Text Last Line: Which let us go forth in the bold day and write Subject(s): Storms; Music & Musicians PUBLISH MY NAME AND HANG UP MY PICTURE , FR. RECORDERS AGES HENCE Subject(s): Friendship QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR Poem Text First Line: Approaching, nearing, curious Last Line: Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching? Subject(s): Old Age QUICKSAND YEARS Poem Text First Line: Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither Last Line: When shows break up what but one's-self is sure? RACE OF VETERANS Poem Text First Line: Race of veterans - race of victors! Last Line: Race of passion and the storm. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History RECONCILIATION Poem Text First Line: Word over all, beautiful as the sky Last Line: Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History RECORDERS AGES HENCE Poem Text Last Line: Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoul-der of his friend, while the arm o Subject(s): Self RED JACKET (FROM ALOFT) Poem Text First Line: Upon this scene, this show Last Line: Like one of ossian's ghosts looks down. Subject(s): Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830) RESPONDEZ! Poem Text First Line: Respondez! Respondez! / (the war is completed - the price is paid - the title is Last Line: Years of death! (what do you suppose death will do, then?) Variant Title(s): Poem Of The Propositions Of Nakedness REVERSALS Poem Text First Line: Let that which stood in front go behind Last Line: Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself. RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS ROAMING IN THOUGHT (AFTER READING HEGEL) Poem Text First Line: Roaming in thought over the universe, I saw the little that is good Last Line: Merge itself and become lost and dead. ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE Poem Text First Line: Roots and leaves themselves alone are these, Last Line: Flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees. Subject(s): Nature SAIL OUT FOR GOOD, EIDOLON YACHT! Poem Text First Line: Heave the anchor short! Last Line: Sail out for good, eidolon yacht of me! SAILING THE MISSISSIPPI AT MIDNIGHT First Line: Vast and starless, the pall of heaven SALUT AU MONDE Poem Text First Line: O take my hand walt whitman Last Line: For all the haunts and homes of men. Subject(s): Earth; World SAVANTISM Poem Text First Line: Thither as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself Last Line: As a father to his father going takes his children along with him. SAYS Poem Text First Line: I say whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right Last Line: Eligible to that one man or woman, on the same terms as any. SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY BREAST Poem Text Last Line: But you will last very long Subject(s): Death SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER Poem Text First Line: I doubt it not - then more, far more Last Line: A mystic cipher waits infolded. Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Dramatists; Philosophy & Philosophers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHUT NOT YOUR DOORS TO ME PROUD LIBRARIES SLEEPERS First Line: I wander all night in my vision Last Line: Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time Variant Title(s): Sleep-chasing SMALL THE THEME OF MY CHANT Poem Text First Line: Small the theme of my chant, yet the greatest - namely, one's-self Last Line: Once, and link'd together let us go.) SO FAR, AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END Poem Text Last Line: And you, contemporary america Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Modern Life SO LONG! Poem Text First Line: To conclude, I announce what comes after me Last Line: I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SO LONG, SELS. First Line: Camerado, this is no book SOLID, IRONICAL, ROLLING ORB Poem Text Last Line: And of me, as lover and hero Subject(s): Earth SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse Last Line: Yet out of that I have written these songs.) Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets SONG AT SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Splendor of ended day floating and filling me Last Line: I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration. SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS Poem Text First Line: To-day a rude brief recitative Last Line: All seas, all ships. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean SONG FOR THE STATES First Line: I will make a song for these states that no one state may under any SONG OF MYSELF Poem Text Recitation First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG OF MYSELF: 21, SELS. First Line: Press close bare-bosom'd night - press close magnetic nourishing %night Last Line: O unspeakable passionate love Subject(s): Love SONG OF PRUDENCE Poem Text First Line: Manhattan's streets I saunter'd, pondering Last Line: Nor avoids death. SONG OF THE ANSWERER Poem Text First Line: Now list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the answerer Last Line: Ceaseless rings and never be quiet again. SONG OF THE ANSWERER (DIFFERENT VERSION) First Line: A young man came to me with a message from his brother Last Line: Or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison? SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAY-BREAK Poem Text First Line: O a new song, a free song Last Line: Flapping up there in the wind. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE Poem Text First Line: Weapon shapely, naked, wan Last Line: Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth. Subject(s): Axes; Earth; Hatchets; World SONG OF THE EXPOSITION Poem Text First Line: Ah little recks the laborer Last Line: Our freedom all in thee! Our very lives in thee! Subject(s): Freedom; United States; Liberty; America SONG OF THE EXPOSITION First Line: Come muse migrate from greece and ionia Last Line: For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried %domain awaits, demands you SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD Poem Text Recitation First Line: Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road Last Line: Shall we stick by each other as long as we live? Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE Poem Text First Line: A california song Last Line: To build a grander future. Subject(s): California; Sequoia Trees; Redwoods SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL Poem Text First Line: Come said the muse Last Line: And all the world a dream. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SOON SHALL THE WINTER'S FOIL BE HERE Poem Text Last Line: For such the scenes the annual play brings on Subject(s): Winter SOUL, REACHING, THROWING OUT FOR LOVE Last Line: You fathomless latent souls of love - you pent and unknown oceans of love! SOUNDS OF THE WINTER Poem Text First Line: Sounds of the winter too Last Line: Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt. Subject(s): Winter SPAIN, 1873-1874 Poem Text First Line: Out of the murk of heaviest clouds Last Line: Thou waitest there as everywhere thy time. Subject(s): Spain SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL Poem Text First Line: Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day Last Line: Sparkles from the wheel. SPECIMEN DAYS: A JULY AFTERNOON BY THE POND First Line: The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air - the Last Line: Yet may - be the most real reality and formulator of everything - who %knows? Subject(s): July; Nature; Summer SPECIMEN DAYS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Line: August 12th. - I see the president almost every day, as I happen to live Last Line: Of two or three centuries ago is needed Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.) SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER First Line: Another characteristic scene of that dark and bloody 1863, from notes Last Line: They yield the field Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Soldiers; War Injuries SPECIMEN DAYS: LOAFING IN THE WOODS First Line: March 8. - I write this down in the country again, but in a new spot Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Nature SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS First Line: And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may Last Line: Military, has already been - buried in the grave, in eternal darkness Subject(s): Army - United States; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War Injuries SPIRIT THAT FORM'D THIS SCENE (WRITTEN IN PLATTE CANON, COLORADO) SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865) Poem Text First Line: Spirit whose work is done -- spirit of dreadful hours! Last Line: Let them identify you to the future in these songs. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History SPONTANEOUS ME Poem Text First Line: Spontaneous me, nature Last Line: It has done its work -- I toss it carelessly to fall where it may. STALLION, FR. SONG OF MYSELF First Line: A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my Subject(s): Sports STARTING FROM PAUMANOK Poem Text First Line: Starting from fish-shape paumanok where I was born Last Line: O to haste firm holding -- to haste, haste on with me. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Religion; Theology STATES! Poem Text First Line: States! / were you looking to be held together by lawyers? Last Line: Of lovers tie you. Subject(s): United States; America STILL THOUGH THE ONE I SING Poem Text Last Line: I leave in him revolt, (o latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!) Subject(s): Revolutions STRONGER LESSONS Poem Text First Line: Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you Last Line: You with contempt, or dispute the passage with you? SUNRISE First Line: Darkies looking at the sun as it rose, a round red Last Line: Yes, said the other, but it looks mighty ambitious.' SUPPLEMENT HOURS Poem Text First Line: Sane, random, negligent hours Last Line: The silent sun and stars. TEARS Poem Text First Line: Tears! Tears! Tears! / in the night, in solitude, tears Last Line: Of tears! Tears! Tears! Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TESTS Poem Text First Line: All submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis Last Line: Corroborate far and near without one exception. THANKS IN OLD AGE - THANKS ERE I GO THAT MUSIC ALWAYS ROUND ME Poem Text First Line: That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught Last Line: Think I begin to know them. THAT SHADOW MY LIKENESS Poem Text First Line: That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking livlihood Last Line: O I never doubt whether that is really me. THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION Poem Text First Line: While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long Last Line: And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics THE BASE OF ALL METAPHYSICS Poem Text First Line: And now gentlemen Last Line: Of city for city and land for land. Subject(s): Metaphysics THE BEAUTIFUL SWIMMER Poem Text First Line: I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea Last Line: Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse. Subject(s): Drowning; Gays & Lesbians THE BEAUTY OF THE SHIP Poem Text First Line: When, staunchly entering port Last Line: I only saw, at last, the beauty of the ship. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight Last Line: But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery THE CALMING THOUGH OF ALL Poem Text First Line: That coursing on, whate'er men's speculations Last Line: The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes continue. THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY Poem Text First Line: Give me your hand, old revolutionary Last Line: Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade. Subject(s): American Civil War; Brooklyn, New York; Old Age; United States - History; Veterans THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE Poem Text First Line: By the city dead-house by the gate Last Line: Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house -- but dead, dead, dead. Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE COMMONPLACE Poem Text First Line: The commonplace I sing Last Line: The democratic wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all. Subject(s): Democracy THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES Poem Text First Line: Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Last Line: She hers, he his, pursuing. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE DEAD EMPEROR Poem Text First Line: To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, columbia Last Line: Mourning a good old man -- a faithful shepherd, patriot. Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881) THE DEAD TENOR Poem Text First Line: As down the stage again Last Line: To memory of thee. Subject(s): Singing & Singers THE DEAR LOVE OF COMRADES Poem Text First Line: I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions Last Line: The institution of the dear love of comrades. THE DISMANTLED SHIP Poem Text First Line: In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay, Last Line: Lies rusting, mouldering. Subject(s): Decay; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence THE DYING VETERAN; A LONG ISLAND INCIDENT - EARLY PART PRESENT CENTURY Poem Text First Line: Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity Last Line: "give me my old wild battle-life again!" Subject(s): Veterans THE FEW DROPS KNOWN Poem Text First Line: Of heroes, history, grand events, premises, myths, poems Last Line: What are they to the long and copious retrospect of antiquity? THE FIRST DANDELION Poem Text First Line: Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close Last Line: The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE LAST INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: At the last, tenderly Last Line: Strong is your hold o love.) Variant Title(s): The Imprisoned Soul Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER Poem Text First Line: Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician Last Line: Joy! Joy! All over joy! Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight THE OX-TAMER Poem Text First Line: In a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region Last Line: In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen THE PALLID WREATH Poem Text First Line: Somehow I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is Last Line: It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid. THE PRAIRIE STATES Poem Text First Line: A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude Last Line: To justify the past. Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING Poem Text First Line: The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing Last Line: Those of inland america. Subject(s): Prairies; United States; Plains; America THE RETURN OF THE HEROES Poem Text First Line: For the lands and for these passionate days and for myself Last Line: Under the beaming sun and under thee. Variant Title(s): Where None Intrudes Subject(s): Americans; Reconstruction (1865-1876) THE ROUNDED CATALOGUE DIVINE COMPLETE' Poem Text First Line: The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd Last Line: The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot Subject(s): Evil THE RUNNER Poem Text First Line: On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner Last Line: With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd. Subject(s): Athletes; Sports THE SHIP STARTING Poem Text First Line: Lo! The unbounded sea! Last Line: They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam. Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE SINGER IN THE PRISON Poem Text First Line: O sight of pity, shame and dole! Last Line: O fearful thought -- a convict soul. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE SLEEPERS (VERSION OF 1881) Poem Text First Line: I wander all night in my vision Last Line: I will duly pass the day o my mother, and duly return to you. THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS (MIDNIGHT, SEPT. 19-20, 1881) Poem Text First Line: The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news every Last Line: Those heart-beats of a nation in the night. Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) THE TORCH Poem Text First Line: On my northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands Last Line: Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow. THE UNEXPRESS'D Poem Text First Line: How dare one say it? Last Line: (who knows? The best yet unexpress'd and lacking.) THE UNITED STATES TO OLD WORLD CRITICS Poem Text First Line: Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete Last Line: The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars. Subject(s): United States; America THE UNTOLD WANT Poem Text First Line: The untold want by life and land ne'er granted Last Line: Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find. THE VOICE OF THE RAIN Poem Text First Line: And who art thou? Said I to the soft-falling shower Last Line: Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.) Subject(s): Rain; Rivers THE WALLABOUT MARTYRS Poem Text First Line: Greater than memory of achilles or ulysses Last Line: The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, america. Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period THE WORLD BELOW THE BRINE THE WOUND-DRESSER Poem Text Recitation First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Variant Title(s): The Dresser Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips THEN SHALL PERCEIVE Poem Text First Line: In softness, languor, bloom, and growth Last Line: Shall rouse and fill -- then shall perceive! THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH Poem Text First Line: There was a child went forth every day, Last Line: And who now goes, and will always go forth every day. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THESE CAROLS Poem Text First Line: These carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see Last Line: For completion I dedicate to the invisible world. THESE I SINGING IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: These I singing in spring collect for lovers Last Line: Am capable of loving. THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING! FLAG OF STARS! THINK OF THE SOUL Poem Text Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THIS COMPOST: 1. Poem Text First Line: Something startles me where I thought I was safest Last Line: I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. Subject(s): Earth; World THIS COMPOST: 2. Poem Text First Line: Behold this compost! Behold it well! Last Line: Leavings from them at last. Subject(s): Earth; World THIS DAY, O SOUL Poem Text First Line: This day, o soul, I give you a wondrous mirror Last Line: Faithfully showing you all the things of the world. THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO Last Line: Every motion and joint of your body Subject(s): Life Change Events THIS MOMENT YEARNING AND THOUGHTFUL Poem Text First Line: This moment yearning and thoughtful sitting alone Last Line: I know I should be happy with them. THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD THOU ORB ALOFT FULL-DAZZLING Poem Text First Line: Thou orb aloft full-dazzling! Thou hot october noon! Last Line: Prepare my starry nights. Subject(s): Stars THOU READER Poem Text First Line: Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I Last Line: Therefore for thee the following chants. Subject(s): Books; Reading THOUGHT (1) Poem Text First Line: As I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing Last Line: Is only matter triumphant? Subject(s): Religion; Theology THOUGHT (2) Poem Text First Line: Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness Last Line: The lead of those who do not believe in men. Subject(s): United States; America THOUGHT (3) Poem Text First Line: Of justice - as if justice could be anything but the same ample law Last Line: As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions. Subject(s): Justice THOUGHT (4) Poem Text First Line: Of equality - as if harm'd me Last Line: Indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same. Subject(s): Equality THOUGHT (5) Poem Text First Line: Of persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships Last Line: Walking the dusk.) Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste THOUGHT (6) Poem Text First Line: Of what I write from myself - as if that were not the resume Last Line: The lives of heroes. THOUGHTS (1) Poem Text First Line: Of ownership - as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all Last Line: Purport in what will vet be supplied. THOUGHTS (2) Poem Text First Line: Of these years I sing Last Line: To savageness and freedom?) THOUGHTS (3) Poem Text First Line: Of public opinion Last Line: Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them. TO A CERTAIN CANTATRICE Poem Text First Line: Here, take this gift Last Line: Much as to any. TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN Poem Text First Line: Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me? Last Line: For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE Poem Text First Line: Be composed - be at ease with me - I am walt whitman, liberal and lusty Last Line: Not forget me. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE Poem Text First Line: Courage yet, my brother or my sister! Last Line: And that death and dismay are great. Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Revolutions; Liberty TO A HISTORIAN Poem Text First Line: You who celebrate bygones Last Line: I project the history of the future. Subject(s): History; Historians TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: Thee for my recitative Last Line: To the free skies unpent and glad and strong. Subject(s): Locomotives TO A PRESIDENT Poem Text First Line: All you are doing and saying is to america dangled mirages Last Line: Off from these states. Subject(s): Buchanan, James. President (1791-1868); Presidents, United States; United States; America TO A PUPIL Poem Text First Line: Is reform needed? Is it through you? Last Line: Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality. Subject(s): Schools; Students TO A STRANGER Poem Text First Line: Passing stranger! You do not know how longingly I look upon you, Last Line: I am to see to it that I do not lose you. TO A WESTERN BOY Poem Text First Line: Many things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine Last Line: Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine? Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO BE AT ALL Poem Text First Line: To be at all - what is better than that? Last Line: Between me and whatever I wanted. TO FOREIGN LANDS Poem Text First Line: I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the new world Last Line: Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted. Subject(s): United States; America TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS Poem Text Last Line: Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED Poem Text First Line: My spirit to yours, dear brother Last Line: Races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology TO OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads Last Line: Grandly as it pours in the great sea. Subject(s): Old Age TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE Poem Text First Line: From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you Last Line: I do not commiserate, I congratulate you. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO RICH GIVERS Poem Text First Line: What you give me I cheerfully accept Last Line: Gifts of the universe. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving TO SOAR IN FREEDOM AND IN FULNESS OF POWER Poem Text First Line: I have not so much emulated the birds that musically sing Last Line: Power, joy, volition. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST TO THE GARDEN THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: To the garden the world anew ascending Last Line: Or in front, and I following her just the same. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD Poem Text First Line: To the leaven'd soul they trod calling I sing for the last Last Line: But the hot sun of the south is to fully ripen my songs. Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876) TO THE MAN-OF-WAR-BIRD Poem Text First Line: Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm Last Line: What joys! What joys were thine! Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Storms TO THE PENDING YEAR Poem Text First Line: Have I no weapon-word for thee -- some message brief and fierce? Last Line: Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD Poem Text First Line: Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing Last Line: South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.) Subject(s): Men; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; United States; America TO THE SUN-SET BREEZE Poem Text First Line: Ah, whispering, something again, unseen Last Line: Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee? TO THEE OLD CAUSE! Poem Text Last Line: Around the idea of thee Subject(s): Peace Movements TO THINK OF TIME Poem Text First Line: To think of time - of all that retrospection Last Line: And life and materials are altogether for it! Subject(s): Time TO THINK OF TIME (DIFFERENT VERSION) First Line: To think of time - to think through the retrospection Last Line: And all preparation is for it - and identity is for it - and life and death are for it Subject(s): Time TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D, IN ASPIRATION VAST Poem Text Last Line: Quench'd by an early death Subject(s): Failure TO WHAT YOU SAID First Line: To what you said, passionately clasping my hand Last Line: What to these young men that travel with me? TO YOU (1) Poem Text First Line: Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me Last Line: And why should I not speak to you? TO YOU (2) Poem Text First Line: Let us twain walk aside from the rest Last Line: Husband, or physician. TO YOU (3) Poem Text First Line: Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walk of dreams Last Line: You are picks its way. TO-DAY AND THEE Poem Text First Line: The appointed winners in a long-stretch'd game Last Line: The heirdom all converged in thee! TRANSPOSITIONS Poem Text First Line: Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling Last Line: Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest. TRICKLE DROPS Poem Text First Line: Trickle drops! My blue veins leaving! Last Line: Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops. TRUE CONQUERORS Poem Text First Line: Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent) Last Line: True conquerors o'er all the rest. Subject(s): Old Age TURN O LIBERTAD Poem Text First Line: Turn o libertad, for the war is over Last Line: Is swiftly, surely preparing for you. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty TWENTY YEARS Poem Text First Line: Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting Last Line: Of the future?) Subject(s): Time TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: The soft voluptuous opiate shades Last Line: A haze -- nirwana -- rest and night -- oblivion. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWO MYSTERIES First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Subject(s): Death - Children TWO MYSTERIES First Line: In the middle of the room, in its white coffin, lay the dead Subject(s): Death - Children TWO RIVULETS Poem Text First Line: Two rivulets side by side Last Line: Your breast so broad, with open arms, o firm, expanded shore!) Subject(s): Rivers UNFOLDED OUT OF THE FOLDS Poem Text First Line: Unfolded out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded Last Line: In himself. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race UNNAMED LANDS Poem Text First Line: Nations ten thousand years before these states, and many times ten thousand Last Line: Unnamed lands. UNSEEN BUDS Poem Text First Line: Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well Last Line: And waiting ever more, forever more behind. Subject(s): Religion; Theology VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT VIRGINIA - THE WEST Poem Text First Line: The noble sire fallen on evil days Last Line: For you provided me washington -- and now these also. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy VISOR'D Poem Text First Line: A mask, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself Last Line: Falling upon her even when she sleeps. VOCALISM Poem Text First Line: Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak Last Line: Lies slumbering forever ready in all words. WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION Poem Text First Line: To the states, or any one of them, or any city of the states Last Line: Ever afterward resumes its liberty. Subject(s): Slavery; United States; Serfs; America WANDERING AT MORN Poem Text Last Line: Destin'd to fill the world Subject(s): Social Commentaries WARBLE FOR LILAC TIME Poem Text First Line: Warble me now for joy of lilac-time Last Line: A warble for joy of lilac-time, returning in reminiscence. WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, FEBRUARY, 1885 Poem Text First Line: Ah, not this marble, dead and cold Last Line: Stands or is rising thy true monument. Subject(s): Washington Monument WE TWO BOYS TOGETHER CLINGING WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D WEAVE IN, WEAVE IN, MY HARDY LIFE WEDDING OUT WEST First Line: I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air Last Line: Limbs and reach'd to her feet Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage WHAT AM I AFTER ALL Poem Text First Line: What am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? Last Line: Pronunciations in the sound of your name? Subject(s): Names WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR Poem Text First Line: What best I see in thee Last Line: Were all so justified. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) WHAT ENDURES?, FR. SONG OF THE BLOOD-AXE First Line: Nothing endures but personal qualities Subject(s): Courage WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED? Poem Text First Line: What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege? Last Line: And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun. WHAT SHIP PUZZLED AT SEA Poem Text First Line: What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning? Last Line: Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer. WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND? WHEN I HEARD AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY Poem Text First Line: When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd Last Line: And his arm lay lightly around my breast--and that night I was happy. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER WHEN I PERUSE THE CONQUER'D FAME Poem Text First Line: When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals Last Line: Bitterest envy. Subject(s): Envy; Love WHEN I READ THE BOOK Poem Text First Line: When I read the book, the biography famous Last Line: I seek for my own use to trace out here.) Subject(s): Life WHEN LILAC LAST First Line: O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved? Last Line: I'll perfume the grave of him I love WHEN THE FULL-GROWN POET CAME WHILE NOT THE PAST FORGETTING Poem Text Last Line: Wreaths of roses and branches of palm Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Past; Brotherhood WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH Poem Text First Line: Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear Last Line: Some soul is passing over.) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT First Line: A spell of fine weather WHO IS NOW READING THIS? Poem Text Last Line: Or as if it could cease transpiring from me until it must cease Subject(s): Self; Relationships WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE? Poem Text Last Line: And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderfu Subject(s): Time; Knowledge WHOEVER YOU ARE HOLDING ME NOW IN HAND Poem Text Last Line: Therefore release me, and depart on your way Subject(s): Relationships WITH ALL THY GIFTS AMERICA Poem Text Last Line: The mothers fit for thee? Subject(s): United States; Women WITH ANTECEDENTS WITH HUSKY-HAUGHTY LIPS, O SEA Poem Text Last Line: Thou tellest to a kindred soul. Subject(s): Sea WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE Poem Text First Line: World take good notice, silver stars fading Last Line: Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History YEAR OF METEORS (1859-60) Poem Text First Line: Year of meteors! Brooding year! Last Line: What am I myself but one of your meteors? Subject(s): Meteors YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME Poem Text Last Line: And sullen hymns of defeat? Subject(s): Grief YEARS OF THE MODERN Poem Text First Line: Years of the modern! Years of the unperform'd! Last Line: The unperform'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me. Subject(s): Patriotism YET, YET, YE DOWNCAST HOURS, I KNOW YE ALSO Poem Text Last Line: A young man's voice, shall I not escape? Subject(s): Despair YONNONIDO Poem Text First Line: A song, a poem of itself - the word itself a dirge Last Line: Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS Poem Text Last Line: And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself? Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Trials YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME Poem Text First Line: You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs Last Line: The faithfulest -- hardiest -- last. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Youth, large, lusty, loving -- youth full of grace, force, fascination, Last Line: And restoring darkness. Subject(s): Youth |
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