Poems by Walt Whitman

Darest thou now O soul,
Walk out with me toward the unknown region,
Where neither ground is f...

As down the stage again,
With Spanish hat and plumes, and gait inimitable,
Back from the fad...

As one by one withdraw the lofty actors,
From that great play on history's stage eterne,
That...

Delicate cluster! Flag of teeming life!
Covering all my lands--all my seashores lining!
Flag of...

The last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath,
On the pavement here, and there bey...

Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
Amid the current songs of beauty, peace, decoru...

Earth, my likeness,
Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
I now suspect th...

I met a seer,
Passing the hues and objects of the world,
The fields of art and learning, ple...

Arm'd year--year of the struggle,
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible ...

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
'Twould not be yo...

Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
With your woolly-white and turban'd head, a...

Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
Like lightning it le'pt forth h...

Who has gone farthest? For I would go farther,
And who has been just? For I would be the most j...

1 Sauntering the pavement or riding the country by-road, faces!
Faces of friendship, precisi...

Facing west from California's shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, ...