Poems by Walt Whitman

First O songs for a prelude,
Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,...

Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever ...

A great year and place
A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's
hea...

From far Dakota's canyons,
Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, ...

From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird,
Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
...

From pent-up aching rivers,
From that of myself without which I were nothing,
From what I am ...

Full of life now, compact, visible,
I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States, ...

Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones unkno...

1 Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me autumnal fruit ri...

A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around ...

Lover divine and perfect Comrade,
Waiting content, invisible yet, but certain,
Be thou my G...

My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend,
(Now buried in an English grave--and this a memory...

Good-bye my Fancy!
Farewell dear mate, dear love!
I'm going away, I know not where,
Or to w...