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me hell's times in all sorts of posishes" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, May 1,
PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM. 1 PROUD music of the storm, Blast that careers so free, whistling across the
PASSAGE TO INDIA. 1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong
THE SLEEPERS. 1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping
TO THINK OF TIME. 1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection, To think of to-day, and the ages continued
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD. 1 THOU Mother with thy equal brood, Thou varied chain of different
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER. 1 HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. 1 AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
SONG OF THE ANSWERER. 1 NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother's bowels drawn, Wooded flesh
SONG OF THE EXPOSITION. 1 (AH little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The
SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE. 1 A CALIFORNIA song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH. 1 A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal
WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
A BROADWAY PAGEANT. 1 OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded
AS I EBB'D WITH THE OCEAN OF LIFE. 1 AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know
SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS. 1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK. 1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd
SONG OF MYSELF. 1 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
THE WOUND-DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star
BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE. 1 BY blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
(To Confront a Portrait.) 1 OUT from behind this bending rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this
VOCALISM. 1 VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal
WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
AS I EBB'D WITH THE OCEAN OF LIFE. 1 AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know
SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS. 1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer
THE WOUND-DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
VOCALISM. 1 VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER. 1 HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through
Wroth to Walt Whitman, 1 January 1891
Brooklyn Jan. 1 st 1891 Walt Whitman Dear Friend, I am moved this first day of the new year to send you
Coffin to Walt Whitman, 1 January 1891