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Born in May 31, 1819 / Died in March 26, 1892 / United States / English

Poems by Walt Whitman

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With Antecedents

...   time. I know that the past was great, and the future will be great, ...

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Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

... or all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at ...

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This Moment, Yearning And Thoughtful

... It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy, ...

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Lo! Victress On The Peaks

... Flauntest now unharm'd, in immortal soundness and bloom-lo! in these ...

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A Glimpse

... me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand, ...

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Song of the Open Road

... the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law ...

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I Sing the Body Electric

... teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings, ...

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O Captain! My Captain!

... For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning ...

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from The Sleepers

... slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him, ...

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America

... Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, ...

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"Out of the rolling ocean the crowd"

... Be not impatient – a little space – know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land, ...

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On the Beach at Night Alone

... s I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future ...

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I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing

... And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, ...

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A Noiseless Patient Spider

... Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, ...

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One's-Self I Sing

... physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, ...