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").
Bivouac On A Mountain Side
I see before me now a traveling army halting,Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,Behind, the terraced sides of a..
© Walt Whitman
Song Of The Redwood-Tree
A CALIFORNIA song!A prophecy and indirection--a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air;A chorus of dryads, fading, departing--or hamadryads..
© Walt Whitman
Apostroph
O MATER! O fils!O brood continental!O flowers of the prairies!O space boundless! O hum of mighty products!O you teeming cities! O so invincible..
© Walt Whitman
Whispers Of Heavenly Death
WHISPERS of heavenly death, murmur'd I hear;Labial gossip of night--sibilant chorals;Footsteps gently ascending--mystical breezes, wafted soft and..
© Walt Whitman
Year That Trembled
YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me!Your summer wind was warm enough--yet the air I breathed froze me;A thick gloom fell through the sunshine..
© Walt Whitman
Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand
BROTHER of all, with generous hand,Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul,A thought to launch in memory of thee,A burial verse..
© Walt Whitman
With All Thy Gifts
WITH all thy gifts, America,(Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,)Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee--With these, and like..
© Walt Whitman
As Consequent, Etc.
AS consequent from store of summer rains,Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing,Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations,Or subterranean sea-rills..
© Walt Whitman
From My Last Years
FROM my last years, last thoughts I here bequeath,Scatter'd and dropt, in seeds, and wafted to the West,Through moisture of Ohio, prairie soil of..
© Walt Whitman
Earth! My Likeness!
EARTH! my likeness!Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,I now suspect that is not all;I now suspect there is something fierce in..
© Walt Whitman
Kosmos
WHO includes diversity, and is Nature,Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexualityof the earth, and the great charity of the..
© Walt Whitman
Song Of The Universal
COME, said the Muse,Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,Sing me the Universal.In this broad Earth of ours,Amid the measureless grossness and the..
© Walt Whitman
O Sun Of Real Peace
O SUN of real peace! O hastening light!O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and..
© Walt Whitman
City Of Orgies
CITY of orgies, walks and joys!City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day makeyou illustrious,Not the pageants of you--not your..
© Walt Whitman
Assurances
I NEED no assurances--I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul;I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands andface I am..
© Walt Whitman
Darest Thou Now, O Soul
DAREST thou now, O Soul,Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region,Where neither ground is for the feet, nor any path to follow?No map, there, nor..
© Walt Whitman
Here The Frailest Leaves Of Me
HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting:Here I shade and hide my thoughts--I myself do not expose them,And yet they expose me..
© Walt Whitman
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also;Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles!Earth to a chamber of mourning turns--I hear the..
© Walt Whitman
Dirge For Two Veterans
THE last sunbeamLightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath,On the pavement here--and there beyond, it is looking,Down a new-made double grave.Lo! the..
© Walt Whitman
Long, Too Long America
Long, too long America,Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,But now, ah now, to learn from crises of..
© Walt Whitman
Who Is Now Reading This?
May-be one is now reading this who knows some wrong-doing of my pastlife,Or may-be a stranger is reading this who has secretly loved me,Or may-be one..
© Walt Whitman
Myself And Mine
MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever,To stand the cold or heat--to take good aim with a gun--to sail aboat--to manage horses--to beget superb children,To..
© Walt Whitman
Beginning My Studies
BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much,The mere fact, consciousness--these forms--the power of motion,The least insect or..
© Walt Whitman
Song For All Seas, All Ships
TO-DAY a rude brief recitative,Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal;Of unnamed heroes in the ships- Of waves..
© Walt Whitman
As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free
AS a strong bird on pinions free,Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,Such be the thought I'd think to-day of thee, America,Such be the..
© Walt Whitman