Old Ireland, by Walt Whitman
Far hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty,
Crouching over a grave an ancient sorrowful mother, ...
Far hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty,
Crouching over a grave an ancient sorrowful mother, ...
Far back, related on my mother's side,
Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died:
(Had ...
In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of...
O living always, always dying!
O the burials of me past and present,
O me while I stride ahea...
[For the Inauguration of a Public School, Camden, New Jersey, 1874] An old man's thoug...
O magnet-south! O glistening perfumed South! My South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and...
O me! O life! Of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of ...
O star of France,
The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
Like some proud ship that...
In a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region,
Lives my farmer friend, the theme...
Somehow I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is,
Let it remain back there on its nail sus...
1 Singing my days,
Singing the great achievements of the present,
Singing the strong light ...
Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant ...
Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
Ten fishermen waiting--they discover...
Pensive and faltering,
The words the Dead I write,
For living are the Dead,
(Haply the only...