Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY, by WALT WHITMAN Poet's Biography 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 | ||||||||
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies, I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks, By the love of comrades, By the manly love of comrades, For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme! For you, for you I am trilling these songs. | Other Poems of Interest...PORT OF EMBARKATION by RANDALL JARRELL LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER |
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