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").
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
Pensive And Faltering
PENSIVE and faltering,The words, the dead, I write;For living are the Dead;(Haply the only living, only real,And I the apparition--I the spectre.)
© Walt Whitman
My Picture-Callery
IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;Yet behold, it..
© Walt Whitman
World, Take Good Notice
WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading,Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,Scarlet, significant..
© Walt Whitman
Excelsior
WHO has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther?And who has been just? For I would be the most just person of theearth;And who most cautious?..
© Walt Whitman
When I Heard At The Close Of The Day
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'dwith plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy nightfor me that..
© Walt Whitman
Song At Sunset
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me!Hour prophetic--hour resuming the past!Inflating my throat--you, divine average!You, Earth and Life..
© Walt Whitman
Passage To India
SINGING my days,Singing the great achievements of the present,Singing the strong, light works of engineers,Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous..
© Walt Whitman
In Paths Untrodden
IN paths untrodden,In the growth by margins of pond-waters,Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,From all the standards hitherto publish'd--from..
© Walt Whitman
Elemental Drifts
ELEMENTAL drifts!How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressingme!As I ebb'd with an ebb of the ocean of life,As I wended the..
© Walt Whitman
One Song, America, Before I Go
ONE song, America, before I go,I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound,For thee--the Future.I'd sow a seed for thee of endless..
© Walt Whitman