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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR HIM I SING, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: To make himself by them the law unto himself
Subject(s): Praise
Last Line: To make himself by them the law unto himself
Subject(s): Praise
FOR him I sing,
I raise the present on the past,
(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
To make himself by them the law unto himself.
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