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Title: The Calming Thought of All

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: May 27, 1888

Whitman Archive ID: per.00124

Source: New York Herald 27 May 1888: 12. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.

Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, April Lambert, and Susan Belasco

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[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]

THE CALMING THOUGHT OF ALL.1

That coursing on whate'er men's speculations,
Amid the changing schools, theologies, philoso-
phies,
Amid the bawling presentations new and old,
The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes
 continue.
WALT WHITMAN.

Notes:

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]


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