Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Mannahatta
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name!Now I see what there is in a name, a word..
© Walt Whitman
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
COME, my tan-faced children,Follow well in order, get your weapons ready;Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes?Pioneers! O..
© Walt Whitman
Among The Multitude
AMONG the men and women, the multitude,I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,Acknowledging none else--not parent, wife, husband..
© Walt Whitman
On Old Man's Thought Of School
AN old man's thought of School;An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itselfcannot.Now only do I know you!O fair auroral..
© Walt Whitman
On The Beach At Night
ON the beach, at night,Stands a child, with her father,Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness,While ravening clouds, the burial..
© Walt Whitman
Sometimes With One I Love
SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuseunreturn'd love;But now I think there is no unreturn'd love--the pay is certain..
© Walt Whitman
Song Of The Open Road
AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me, leading wherever I..
© Walt Whitman
Bathed In War's Perfume
BATHED in war's perfume--delicate flag!(Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,)O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers!..
© Walt Whitman
Had I The Choice
Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,Homer with all his wars and..
© Walt Whitman
Faces
SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road--lo! suchfaces!Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality;The spiritual..
© Walt Whitman
Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,Out of the Ninth-month midnight,Over the sterile sands and..
© Walt Whitman
As I Watche'D The Ploughman Ploughing
As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,Or the sower sowing in the fields- or the harvester harvesting,I saw there too, O life and death, your..
© Walt Whitman
Full Of Life, Now
FULL of life, now, compact, visible,I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States,To one a century hence, or any number of centuries..
© Walt Whitman
Cavalry Crossing A Ford
A LINE in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands;They take a serpentine course--their arms flash in the sun--Hark tothe musical..
© Walt Whitman
I Sing The Body Electric
I SING the Body electric;The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,And..
© Walt Whitman
As At Thy Portals Also Death
AS at thy portals also death,Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,To memories of my mother, to the divine blending, maternity,To her..
© Walt Whitman
Primeval My Love For The Woman I Love
PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love,O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, thethought of you!Then separate, as..
© Walt Whitman
Behavior
BEHAVIOR--fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself,Nature and the Soul expressed--America and freedom expressed--In itthe finest..
© Walt Whitman
City Of Ships
City of ships!(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!O the beautiful sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!)City of the world! (for all races are..
© Walt Whitman
O You Whom I Often And Silently Come
O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may bewith you;As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room..
© Walt Whitman
A Leaf For Hand In Hand
A LEAF for hand in hand!You natural persons old and young!You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of theMississippi!You friendly..
© Walt Whitman
As I Lay With Head In Your Lap, Camerado
AS I lay with my head in your lap, Camerado,The confession I made I resume--what I said to you in the open air Iresume:I know I am restless, and make..
© Walt Whitman
In Midnight Sleep
IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish,Of the look at first of the mortally wounded--of that indescribablelook;Of the dead on their backs, with..
© Walt Whitman
Aboard At A Ship's Helm
ABOARD, at a ship's helm,A young steersman, steering with care.A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell--O a warning bell..
© Walt Whitman
A Proadway Pageant
OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come,Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed..
© Walt Whitman