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Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

eddies of the wind, A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms, The play

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

lights, The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars; The slow-march played

Leaves of Grass, "Come Closer to Me,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Leaves of Grass, "To Think of Time . . . . To Think Through"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

own part, Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, Fond of women, . . played

Leaves of Grass, "I Wander All Night in My Vision,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Leaves of Grass, "Clear the Way There Jonathan!"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Let priests still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Letter. Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

inheritance of the English language—all the rich repertoire of traditions, poems, historics, metaphysics, plays

Review. Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

colored lights, The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow-march played

Poem of Salutation.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

some playing, some slum- bering slumbering ? Who are the girls? Who are the married women?

Poem of the Daily Work of the Workmen and Workwomen of These States.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes, ora- tions orations and plays would be vacuums.

Broad-Axe Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cherished for them- selves themselves , They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musi- cians musicians play

Poem of the Body.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Poem of Many in One.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Sun-Down Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

never told them a word, Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping, Played

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!

Faith Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless; I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play

Poem of Apparitions in Boston, the 78th Year of These States.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I love to look on the stars and stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Night Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Let priests still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Burial Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

his own part, witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, played

Mannahatta

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

thronged—vehicles—Broadway—the wo- men women —the shops and shows, The parades, processions, bugles playing

Thoughts 5

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it

Sleep-Chasings

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

So Long!

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Once more I enforce you to give play to yourself— and not depend on me, or on any one but yourself, Once

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I play not here marches for victors only—I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Let priests still play at immortality! Let Death be inaugurated!

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the artillery!

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless; I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play

the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold—the play

Cluster: Enfans D'adam. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all won- drous wondrous , My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done; I will play

Cluster: Calamus. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Cluster: Thoughts. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it

Proto-Leaf

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

step they wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing

its part and passing on, And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those winged purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

I play not here marches for victors only—I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

colored lights, The steam-whistle—the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow-march played

Chants Democratic and Native American 1

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These are not to be cherished for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

13* The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rest standing—they are too tired; Afar on arctic ice, the she-walrus lying drowsily, while her cubs play

returning home at evening—the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play—or

Chants Democratic and Native American 5

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Let priests still play at immortality! Let Death be inaugurated!

Chants Democratic and Native American 8

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

Leaves of Grass 7

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless; I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play

Leaves of Grass 16

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold—the play

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some playing, some slum- bering slumbering ? Who are the girls? Who are the married women?

Poem of Joys

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the artillery!

A Word Out of the Sea

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wandered alone, bare- headed bareheaded , barefoot, Down from the showered halo, Up from the mystic play

Enfans D'adam 1

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all won- drous wondrous , My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays

Enfans D'adam 3

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Enfans D'adam 8

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done; I will play

A Boston Ballad, the 78th Year of These States

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I love to look on the stars and stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Calamus 43

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

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