Poems by Walt Whitman

When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of
mighty generals, I do not envy ...

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns bef...

When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd
with plaudits in the capitol,...

What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
Or coming in, to avoid the bars and fol...

Turn O Libertad, for the war is over,
From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more,...

Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:
He shipp'd as green-h...

As I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes--...

How dare one say it?
After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,
Vaunted Ionia's, India's--Ho...

Unfolded out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is
always to come unfolded,
Un...

Nations ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten
thousand years before these ...

Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well,
Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every sq...

Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side th...

The noble sire fallen on evil days,
I saw with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing,
(Memor...

We two, how long we were fool'd,
Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
We ar...

Weave in, weave in, my hardy life,
Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to...