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").
To A Locomotive In Winter
THEE for my recitative!Thee in the driving storm, even as now--the snow--the winter-daydeclining;Thee in thy panoply, thy measured dual throbbing..
© Walt Whitman
What Think You I Take My Pen In Hand?
WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass theoffing to-day under full sail?The..
© Walt Whitman
The Torch
ON my northwest coast in the midst of the night, a fishermen's groupstands watching;Out on the lake, that expands before them, others are..
© Walt Whitman
We Two Boys Together Clinging
WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going--North and South excursions making,Power enjoying--elbows..
© Walt Whitman
The Prairie-Grass Dividing
THE prairie-grass dividing--its special odor breathing,I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,Demand the most copious and close companionship of..
© Walt Whitman
There Was A Child Went Forth
THERE was a child went forth every day;And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became;And that object became part of him for the day, or..
© Walt Whitman
This Dust Was Once The Man
THIS dust was once the Man,Gentle, plain, just and resolute--under whose cautious hand,Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or..
© Walt Whitman
Lo! Victress On The Peaks
LO! Victress on the peaks!Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world,(The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee;)Out of its..
© Walt Whitman
The Ship Starting
LO! THE unbounded sea!On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sails--an ampleShip, carrying even her moonsails;The pennant is flying aloft..
© Walt Whitman
The Sleepers
I WANDER all night in my vision,Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping andstopping,Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of..
© Walt Whitman
The Ox Tamer
IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region,Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer ofOxen:There they..
© Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's Caution
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..
© Walt Whitman
Spain 1873-'74
OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds,Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,Out of that old entire European debris--the shatter'd..
© Walt Whitman
A Song Of Joys
O to make the most jubilant song!Full of music-full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!Full of common employments-full of grain and trees.O for the..
© Walt Whitman
Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb
SOLID, ironical, rolling orb!Master of all, and matter of fact! - at last I accept your terms;Bringing to practical, vulgar tests, of all my ideal..
© Walt Whitman
Spirit That Form'D Theis Scene
SPIRIT that form'd this scene,These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this..
© Walt Whitman
The Centerarian's Story
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary;The hill-top is nigh--but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;)Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of..
© Walt Whitman
Sing Of The Banner At Day-Break
POET.O A new song, a free song,Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,By the wind's voice and that of the drum,By the..
© Walt Whitman
States!
STATES!Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers?By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms?Away!I arrive, bringing these, beyond all the..
© Walt Whitman
Long, Too Long, O Land!
LONG, too long, O land,Traveling roads all even and peaceful, you learn'd from joys andprosperity only;But now, ah now, to learn from crises of..
© Walt Whitman
Locations And Times
LOCATIONS and times--what is it in me that meets them all, wheneverand wherever, and makes me at home?Forms, colors, densities, odors--what is it in..
© Walt Whitman
The Indications
THE indications, and tally of time;Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts;What always..
© Walt Whitman
The Base Of All Metaphysics
AND now, gentlemen,A word I give to remain in your memories and minds,As base, and finale too, for all metaphysics.(So, to the students, the old..
© Walt Whitman
Scented Herbage Of My Breast
SCENTED herbage of my breast,Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused best afterwards,Tomb-leaves, body-leaves, growing up above me, above..
© Walt Whitman
Inscription
SMALL is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatest--namely,One's-Self--that wondrous thing a simple, separate person.That, for the use of..
© Walt Whitman