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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WHITMAN, WALT (1819-1891) Matches Found: 147 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 168TH CHORUS FROM MEXICO CITY BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asking questions and listening %is sincerity Last Line: -looking over your shoulder %at the beautiful maidens Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) A PACT, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make a pact with you, walt whitman Last Line: Let there be commerce between us. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A TRIBUTE OF GRASSES, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, vast head, with silver cloud of hair Last Line: Here by the eastern sea. Subject(s): Grass; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ABYSS, SELS: 2, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been spoken to variously %but heard little Last Line: But a mole winding through earth, %a night-fishing otter Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) AM LIT, by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: So emily sat with her brother walt Last Line: In that grass %a narrow fellow Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights AN ORSON OF THE MUSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her son, albeit the muse's livery Last Line: If in no vessel built for sea they swim. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) AT CAMDEN, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But why, walt whitman, loveliest serenader Last Line: Beats vainly on that sullen mausoleum. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CAMDEN 1892, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fragrance of coffee and newspapers Last Line: Life and its splendor. I was walt whitman Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CAPE HATTERAS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While rises in the west the coastwise range, %slowly the hushed land Last Line: My hand %in yours, %walt whitman- %so Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CENTENNIAL FOR WHITMAN, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I say to walt whitman tonight Last Line: That you could say to me, walt whitman, today Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CLASSIC WAITS FOR ME, IT CONTAINS ALL, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: By the love of the classics, %by the manly love of the classics Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Book Clubs; Literature; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) COMMON GROUND, SELS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not 'common speech' %a dead level Last Line: Sing to each other across the cold valleys Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) COMRADES AND LOVERS, REST NOT, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Oh, you genteel, conventional, uncourageous Last Line: Rest not. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) COUNTERSONG TO WALT WHITMAN: SONG OF OURSELVES, SELS, by PEDRO MIR Poem Source First Line: For %what else is a great, inevitable poet %but a limpid pool Last Line: On the way to the marbles %us %on the way to the prisons %us Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CROSSING BROOKLYN BRIDGE AT 4 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, AUGUST 4TH, 1979, by CALVIN C. HERNTON Poem Source First Line: Oh, love spat upon and made mockery of! Last Line: That I may live to shed this grief Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cross a ferry that is no longer there Last Line: Have the whole east river to reflect upon %and the tall solidities it liquefies Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) DEFENDING WALT WHITMAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Basketball is like this for young indian boys, all arms and legs Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) DEFENDING WALT WHITMAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Basketball is like this for young indian boys, all arms and legs Last Line: Walt whitman shakes. This game belongs to him Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) DESPAIR, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to be dark all the time Last Line: There are no matches %utter, his father, one word Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ERBACCIA, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Especially overwhelmed by weeds Last Line: Black hands of the father, of the fabbro Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FASTBALL, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not just folklore, or / a tall can of corn (or grass on cranberry street) Last Line: Old solitary whiff-beard Variant Title(s): Fast Ball Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FASTBALL, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not just folklore, or %a tall can of corn (or grass on cranberry street) Last Line: Bingo!- %old solitary whiff-beard Variant Title(s): Fast Bal Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR WALT WHITMAN, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it was to you Last Line: Who eventually will but must not %entirely disappear Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR WALT WHITMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot read you Last Line: The boss? Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR WHITMAN, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have observed the learned astronomer Last Line: The unnamed / the unnameable Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR WHITMAN, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have observed the learned astronomer Last Line: Love being %the unnamed/ %the unnameable Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR YOU, WALT WHITMAN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a message for you-the whole world sent it Last Line: And maybe even the large gray world you were standing on Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) GOOD GREY POET, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look to your words, old man Last Line: Like fruits more and more are bearing, bearing %out their father tree Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) HOME, SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS: 6. WALT WHITMAN, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You over there, young man with the guide-book Last Line: Yawp! Subject(s): Payne, John Howard (1791-1852); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) HOPKINS TO WHITMAN: FROM THE LOST CORRESPONDENCE, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: So at ease, so american, so at home in the world Last Line: Yours, and not, %gerard m. Hopkins, s.J. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I BEGIN BY INVOKING WALT WHITMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I love my country %I claim you, essential brother Last Line: To set down the name of this villain %who practices genocide from the white house Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I LOVE OLD WHITMAN SO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youthful, caressing, boisterous, tender Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I LOVE OLD WHITMAN SO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youthful, caressing, boisterous, tender Last Line: After green seasons civil war and years of snow %white hair Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I, MENICUS, PUPIL OF THE MASTER, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dross of verse, rhyme! Last Line: Who laid down such rails Variant Title(s): I, Mencius, Pupil Of Them Master Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I, MENICUS, PUPIL OF THE MASTER, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dross of verse, rhyme! Last Line: We do not see %ballads %other than our own Variant Title(s): I, Mencius, Pupil Of Them Maste Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I, WALT WHITMAN, LISTENING, by ANNE MARX Poem Source First Line: I hear america sighing, the various complaints I hear Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) IMITATIONS OF WALT WHITMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who am I? Subject(s): "imitation;poetry & Poets;singing & Singers;whitman, Walt (1819-1891); INGRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing walt whitman in mind Last Line: "not at home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The INSTANCES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walt whitman took the earth to bed Last Line: Poets are mad. Are bankers sane? Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) JOB HUNTING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it references you want Last Line: Is my reference, my only one. Subject(s): Job Hunting; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) KOSMOS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walt, you shanghaied me to this Last Line: Sprung back like birds after a shot Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Last Line: And I am putting my proud american boast %right here with the others Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights LETTERS TO WALT WHITMAN, by RONALD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I, too, have plucked a stalk of grass Last Line: Bound up in the unquenchable flames of double suns Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY, SELS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the far south the sun of autumn is passing Last Line: His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) MEMORIES OF WHITMAN AND LINCOLN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs shall bloom for walt whitman Last Line: And lilacs for abraham lincoln. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Poetry & Poets; Presidents, United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 3. PERSEUS (WALT WHITMAN), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seer died. No one claimed him Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 3. PERSEUS (WALT WHITMAN), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seer died. No one claimed him Last Line: I guessed my way out ofthe yard, said black mass at home Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) MODERN POET, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing at rush hour the walt whitman bridge Last Line: Foundation fellowship, he'd buy a ford Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) NURSE WHITMAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You move between the soldiers' cots Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) NURSE WHITMAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You move between the soldiers' cots Last Line: We conceive, walt, with the men we love, thus, now, %we bring to fruit Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) O WHITMAN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whitman, he was wrong Subject(s): Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); United States ODE FOR WALT WHITMAN, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Along east river and the bronx Last Line: The arrival of the reign of the ear of wheat Subject(s): Homosexuality; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes fourth month and the early buds on the trees Last Line: Always forever, mississippi, the god Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes fourth month and the early buds on the trees Last Line: Always, forever, mississippi, the god Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: By the east river and the bronx Last Line: That the kingdom of grain has arrived Subject(s): Homosexuality; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Along east river and the bronx Last Line: Of the coming of the reign of the ears of corn Subject(s): Homosexuality; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Along the east river and the bronx Last Line: The coming of the reign of the wheat Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by MICHAEL GOLD Poem Source First Line: Walt whitman loafed under the trees Last Line: Where walt whitman's america %arches, to be born Subject(s): Communism; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not remember %at what age %nor where Last Line: The pure development %of brotherhood on earth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) OLD WALT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old walt whitman / went finding and seeking Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Negroes; American Blacks OLD WALT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old walt whitman %went finding and seeking Last Line: Old walt whitman went seeking %and finding Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ON THE FERRY: WHITMAN, by MAX J. HERZBERG Poem Text First Line: He passed amid the noisy throngs Last Line: Our greatest man. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ORANGE BEARS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orange bears with soft friendly eyes Last Line: A hell of a fat chance my orange bears had! Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 THE ROLLING OCEAN, THE CROWD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only the ant that walks on the carpenter's board Last Line: Nor the meeting by the altar, nor the rising sun only Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) OVER COLORADO, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When whitman's beard unrolled like the pacific Last Line: Painting your leaves of grass Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) OVER COLORADO, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When whitman's beard unrolled like the pacific Last Line: Or why I see only this %through those democratic vistas %parting your leaves of grass Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) PACIFIC IDEAS-A LETTER TO WALT WHITMAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the schooners were drifting Last Line: O anything, to hold her in my arms! Variant Title(s): Pacific Ideas - A Letter To Walt Whitman Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) PACIFIC IDEAS-A LETTER TO WALT WHITMAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the schooners were drifting Last Line: O anything, to hold her in my arms! Variant Title(s): Pacific Ideas - A Letter To Walt Whitma Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) POPULIST MANIFESTO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, come out of your closets Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) POPULIST MANIFESTO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, come out of your closets Last Line: Awake and sing in the open air Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) PRESTO FURIOSO, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spontaneous us! Last Line: Good old eagle! Subject(s): Army Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Drills & Minor Tactics QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a photo of walt whitman posed Last Line: Back through drowsy nowhere to nothing much Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a photo of walt whitman posed Last Line: Back through drowsy nowhere to nothing much Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) REACHING AROUND, by JUDITH MOFFETT Poem Source First Line: We're all uproarious, philip and I and his Last Line: This long hug made of words that say I'm not Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) READING WALT WHITMAN, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found his wool face, I went away Last Line: Good langston stood too long to lift me Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) READING WALT WHITMAN, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found his wool face, I went away Last Line: On top, and soft underneath the bark. %good langston sat too long to lift me Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) READING WITH THE POETS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitman among the wounded, at the bedside, Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) REMEMBER US, DREAMER (TO WALT WHITMAN), by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: To you, lover and beloved, held in my heart Last Line: Soul songs! And these, above all, we cherish -- light bearer! Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) RETORT TO WHITMAN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And whoever walks a mile full of false sympathy Last Line: Walks to the funeral of the whole human race Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) REVOLUTIONARY FRESCOES-THE ASCENSION, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On that morning when the unknown revolutionary rises Last Line: Though such uprisings don't happen every day Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SALUTATION TO WALT WHITMAN, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: Infinite portugal, june eleventh, nineteen hundred and fifteen Last Line: Cable-cat from olympus to us and from us to olympus Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SALUTATIONS TO FERNANDO PESSOA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I read pessoa I think Subject(s): Pessoa, Fernando (1888-1935); Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SALUTATIONS TO FERNANDO PESSOA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I read pessoa I think Last Line: Diarrhea mouth some people say -- pessoa schmessoa Subject(s): Pessoa, Fernando (1888-1935); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SINCERE FLATTERY OF W.W. (AMERICANUS), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clear cool note of the cuckoo which has ousted the legitimate Last Line: The apparently inexhaustible pianoforte player. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Variant Title(s): Imitation Of Walt Whitman Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SOME NOTES ON WHITMAN FOR ALLEN JOYCE, by JACK SPICER Poem Source First Line: He was reaching for a world I can still remember. Sweet Last Line: That is what I think about your damned calamus Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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 THE ANSWERER, by HELENE MAGARET Poem Source First Line: I celebrate america Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SPRING CLEANING IN THE KITCHEN: THINKING OF WALT WHITMAN, by NATHAN GRAZIANO Poem Source First Line: If walt whitman were here Last Line: And a strong bullpen Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) STORY HAVING TO DO WITH WALT WHITMAN, by DAISY FRIED Poem Source First Line: A friend of mine used to be, and still is, but only Last Line: It. Oh, one more thing. I am the girl, this dancer, this wife Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE GODS LAUGHED ON HIGH OLYMPUS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the gods laughed on high olympus as thy Last Line: We listen -- for your coming, walt whitman! Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE GOOD GRAY POET, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Walt whitman-'good gray poet,' as we say Last Line: Exponent of a newer artistry. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism THE ORANGE BEARS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orange bears with soft friendly eyes Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Work; Workers THE POETS AT TEA: 10. WALT WHITMAN, WHO DIDN'T STAY MORE THAN A MINUTE, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cup for my self-hood Last Line: Allons, from all bat-eyed formula. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE TWO MYSTERIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Last Line: And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Death - Babies TO WALT WHITMAN, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello there, walt! Last Line: Forever on their own! Subject(s): Admiration; Language; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TO WALT WHITMAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O titan soul, ascend your starry steep Last Line: Alone he turns to front the dark unknown Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) TO WALT WHITMAN, by FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Bold innovator in the realm of thought Last Line: Of innocency on a thousand hills. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) TO WALT WHITMAN IN AMERICA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send but a song oversea for us Last Line: Lives, and that only is god Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Liberty TO WALT WHITMAN, FROM SOME YOUNGER ENGLISH FRIENDS, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here health we pledge you in one draught of song Last Line: To call back age to youth again, and pain to perfect %health Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors W. W., by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, walt! Last Line: Good-bye, old walt! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WAITING INSIDE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I protest my isolation / but protest is a mark of my defeat Last Line: With our arms around each other's waists, / in support Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WAITING INSIDE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I protest my isolation %but protest is a mark of my defeat Last Line: With our arms around each other's waists, %in support Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Thy soul hath revelled in the forests green Last Line: Didst pass the heights where storms and the eagles meet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One handshake, walt! While we, thy little band Last Line: Yes, we will wait, in gladness not in pain, %the coming of thy prophecy. ('so long!') Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EMANUEL CARNEVALI Poem Source First Line: Noon on the mountain!- %and all the crags are husky faces powerful with love Last Line: All the shadows %whisper of the sun Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EDWARD DAHLBERG Poem Source First Line: Sing the alpha forest gods Last Line: Whitman, our adam, has died in our loins Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by SAMUEL DUNIEVITZ Poem Text First Line: Simplicity in purity of truth / that in all Last Line: Is the ever lingering object of walt whitman. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EZEQUIEL MARTINEZ ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Wandering among abstruse and upper circles Last Line: And the agonizing fear of losing you again Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by ZONA GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All these reasons for honoring this man Last Line: To those who know how to be Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In your country of iron lives the grand old man Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his land of iron lives the great elder Last Line: With the splendid countenance of a king Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EDWIN HONIG Poem Source First Line: Prophet of the body's %roving magnitude, he still Last Line: The real war %will never get %in the books.' %below the ragged %line he signed %his chummy name Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: But do you really want to see whitman's house instead Last Line: Innumerable toads are croaking in the enormous silence Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O shaggy god of the ground, barbaric pan! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O shaggy god of the ground, barbaric pan! Last Line: And leave you in your immortality Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by JOHN MARTONE Poem Source First Line: Tonight almost in despair I remember Last Line: Scattered at night and lost %this is enough Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: He was in love with truth and knew her near Last Line: Till kind earth held him and he spake with death. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by CAVE OUTLAW Poem Text First Line: Sitting on a fence Last Line: Alone and without pretense. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by LINCOLN REIS Poem Source First Line: Walt whitman, you enigma Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master-songs are ended, and the man Last Line: We write them there forever. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I am no slender singing bird Last Line: That it shall ring for aye and aye. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by WANG YIN Poem Source First Line: He is simply chopping wood in my front yard Last Line: We squint our eyes to look at him Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN, by FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Darkness and death? Nay, pioneer, for thee Last Line: March 26, 1'92. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN (AMERICA'S GREAT POET), by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou, within whose mighty poet-heart Last Line: Upon the dust, before thy dust, and sing Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN AND THE BIRDS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: On waking up, I remembered peter doyle. It must have been Last Line: To the waters of being, like one who prepares himself for flight Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poetry Society Of America; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN AT BEAR MOUNTAIN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither on horseback nor seated Last Line: Dances like italy, imagining red. Subject(s): Bear Mountain, New York; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN ENCOUNTERS THE COSMOS WITH THE CATS OF NEW YORK, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: The cats of morning awaken, sultry and feral Last Line: Because my people are watching Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights WALT WHITMAN IN ALABAMA, by JAKE ADAM YORK Poem Text First Line: Maybe on his way to gadsden Subject(s): Alabama; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN IN THE CAR LOT, REPO OR USED, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: Walt whitman is wearing mirrored sunglasses Last Line: Then inward from the edge of the car lot, %as though it were our sea Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; United States - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN STRIDES THE LLANO OF NEW MEXICO, by RUDOLFO ANAYA Poem Source First Line: I met walt, kind old father, on the llano Last Line: I'll write one in chinese. All of poetry is one Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN: WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH MURMUR'D I HEAR!, by CHOU PING Poem Source First Line: You are dead, I know Last Line: Whorled and fingerprinted with a mysterious force in the dark, %o walt whitman! Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WHEN HELEN KELLER SPOKE (WALT WHITMAN DINNER, 1918), by GEORGE JAY SMITH Poem Text First Line: After others had said their say Last Line: Which she could not hear. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Words; Vocabulary WHITMAN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As voices enter earth, %into your great frame and windy beard Last Line: Touching with sap the finger-tips of adam Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); America WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Last Line: To find me now will cost you everything Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WHITMAN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like queen victoria, he used the regal we Last Line: Messiah!, muse of the modern, mother! Subject(s): Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WHITMAN IN BLACK, by EDMUND JOSEPH BERRIGAN Poem Source First Line: For my sins I live in the city of new york Last Line: Whitman's walk unchanged after its fashion Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WITH WALT WHITMAN AT FREDERICKSBURG, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought the twittering flags old bear hug Last Line: Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) |
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