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").
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
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