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I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, and behold!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my city
ice in the river, passing along, up or down, with the flood-tide or ebb-tide; The mechanics of the city
The beautiful city! the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts!
The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
herself; Of Equality—As if it harmed me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were
OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete
, were not less complete than my poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as
lasting as my poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.
ages, that men and women like us grew up and travelled their course, and passed on; What vast-built cities—What
and phrenology, What of liberty and slavery among them—What they thought of death and the Soul, Who were
O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing, I know that
Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us? Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?
the theory of the earth, and of his or her body, understands by subtle analogies, the theory of a city
Debris 4 HAVE you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood
to have their chance, In it physique, intellect, faith—in it just as much as to manage an army or a city
my clothes were stolen while I was abed, Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
from east to west, as they lie unclothed, The Asiatic and African are hand in hand—the European and American
that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that every- thing everything was alive!
To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them—and we taking
Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business?
It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you, It is not
The threads that were spun are gathered, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.
When America does what was promised, When each part is peopled with free people, When there is no city
on earth to lead my city, the city of young men, the Mannahatta city—But when the Mannahatta leads all
the cities of the earth, When there are plentiful athletic bards, inland and seaboard, When through
to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
ONCE I passed through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
I loved well those cities, I loved well the stately and rapid river, The men and women I saw were all
The beautiful city! the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts!
The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1860) LEAVES OF GRASS. 1. ELEMENTAL drifts!
things in their attitudes, He puts to-day out of himself, with plasticity and love, He places his own city
ALL day I have walked the city, and talked with my friends, and thought of prudence, Of time, space,
doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance malignance , are provided for; I do not doubt that cities
tidy and fresh-cheeked girls—and the bare- foot barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city
Cluster: Enfans D'adam. (1860) Enfans d'Adam. 1.
And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?
sons—and in them were the fathers of sons.
A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,
ONCE I passed through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
Cluster: Calamus. (1860) CALAMUS. 1.
Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? Away!
CITY of my walks and joys!
Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?
, if I could be with you, and become your lover; Be it as if I were with you.
Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860) MESSENGER LEAVES. To You, Whoever You Are.
TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning
obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward
Cluster: Thoughts. (1860) THOUGHTS. 1.
herself; Of Equality—As if it harmed me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were
OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete
, were not less complete than my poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as
lasting as my poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.
Cluster: Debris. (1860) DEBRIS.
HAVE you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for
to have their chance, In it physique, intellect, faith—in it just as much as to manage an army or a city
Paumanok, where I was born, Fond of the sea—lusty-begotten and various, Boy of the Mannahatta, the city
of ships, my city, Or raised inland, or of the south savannas, Or full-breath'd on Californian air,
put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea—And I will report all heroism from an American
ideal of manly love, indicating it in me; I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were
count- less countless herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass; See, in my poems, old and new cities
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk
All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.
, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
If our colors were struck, and the fighting done?
Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
O you teeming cities! O so invincible, turbulent, proud! O race of the future! O women! O fathers!
even if it be only a few ragged huts; O the city where women walk in public processions in the streets
Cities! defiant of all outside authority! I spring at once into your arms! you I most love!
Chants Democratic and Native American 1 1.
incomparable love, Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its geography, cities
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemmed cities, railroad
to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!
the greatest city in the whole world.
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards, Where the city stands that is beloved
city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the greatest
city stands.
Were those your vast and solid?
American masses!
Were all educations, practical and ornamental, well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
, the trottoirs of a city when thousands of well-dressed people walk up and down, The cotton, woollen
Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travellers, Kanada, the snows; Always these compact
White drift spooning ahead, where the ship in the tempest dashes; On solid land, what is done in cities
cotton-bales piled on banks and wharves; Encircling all, vast-darting, up and wide, the Amer- ican American
day, driving the herd of cows, and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the road-side; The city
and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall, where the shine is; The athletic American
Chants Democratic and Native American 5 5. RESPONDEZ! Respondez! Let every one answer!
Let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say! why might they not just as well be transposed?)
Let the Asiatic, the African, the European, the American and the Australian, go armed against the murderous
Let there be wealthy and immense cities—but through any of them, not a single poet, saviour, knower,
Chants Democratic and Native American 6 6. YOU just maturing youth! You male or female!
Chants Democratic and Native American 7 7.
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were
what they should have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
Chants Democratic and Native American 8 8.
Chants Democratic and Native American 9 9.
I see the results glorious and inevitable—and they again leading to other results;) How the great cities
Chants Democratic and Native American 10 10. HISTORIAN! you who celebrate bygones!
do not tell the usual facts, proved by records and documents, What I tell, (talking to every born American
nor afraid; Chanter of Personality, outlining a history yet to be, I project the ideal man, the American
Chants Democratic and Native American 11 11.
women there—of happiness in those high plateaus, ranging three thousand miles, warm and cold, Of cities
Chants Democratic and Native American 12 12.
refuse, all attend, Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paint- ings paintings , machines, cities
Chants Democratic and Native American 13 13.
Chants Democratic and Native American 14 14. POETS to come!
Indeed, if it were not for you, what would I be?
Chants Democratic and Native American 15 15. WHO has gone farthest?
For I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city
Chants Democratic and Native American 16 16.
ucts products —they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city
Chants Democratic and Native American 17 17.
We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the north-east, the vast valley of the
Chants Democratic and Native American 18 18.
Chants Democratic and Native American 19 19.
Chants Democratic and Native American 20 20. AMERICAN mouth-songs!
Chants Democratic and Native American 21 21.
the world—politics, produce, The announcements of recognized things—science, The approved growth of cities
But we too announce solid things, Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not noth- ing nothing
, The best farms—others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps, The noblest and costliest cities—others
things in their attitudes, He puts to-day out of himself, with plasticity and love, He places his own city
ALL day I have walked the city, and talked with my friends, and thought of prudence, Of time, space,
deputed atonement, Knows that the young man who composedly perilled his life and lost it, has done exceeding
doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance malignance , are provided for; I do not doubt that cities
tidy and fresh-cheeked girls—and the bare- foot barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city
The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders as of those countries—the soil, trees, cities
I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth, I see them welding State to State, city to city, through
I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at ran- dom random a part of them, I am a real Parisian
Christiania or Stockholm—or in Siberian Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland; I descend upon all those cities
What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I pen- etrate penetrate those cities myself, 22* All islands
O the streets of cities! The flitting faces—the expressions, eyes, feet, cos- tumes costumes !
, Down from the showered halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were
I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard