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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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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.)

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..

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading,Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,Scarlet, significant..

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?..

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..

SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me!Hour prophetic--hour resuming the past!Inflating my throat--you, divine average!You, Earth and Life..

SINGING my days,Singing the great achievements of the present,Singing the strong, light works of engineers,Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous..

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..

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..

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..

As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)I mark'd at the foot of a tree the..

ONLY themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves,As Souls only understand Souls.

FACING west, from California's shores,Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of..

ON journeys through the States we start,(Ay, through the world--urged by these songs,Sailing henceforth to every land--to every sea;)We, willing..