I celebrate myself, and sing mysel… And what I assume you shall assum… For every atom belonging to me as… I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observ…
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free… Away from books, away from art, th… Thee fully forth emerging, silent,… Night, sleep, death and the stars.
HOLD it up sternly! See this it… Outside fair costume—within ashes… No more a flashing eye—no more a s… Now some slave’s eye, voice, hands… A drunkard’s breath, unwholesome e…
A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promont… Mark’d how to explore the vacant v… It launch’d forth filament, filame… Ever unreeling them, ever tireless…
A Sight in camp in the day—break… As from my tent I emerge so early… As slow I walk in the cool fresh… tent, Three forms I see on stretchers l…
A Woman waits for me—she contains… Yet all were lacking, if sex were… right man were lacking. Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs,…
Ages and ages, returning at interv… Undestroy’d, wandering immortal, Lusty, phallic, with the potent or… I, chanter of Adamic songs, Through the new garden, the West,…
As I ponder’d in silence, Returning upon my poems, consideri… A Phantom arose before me, with d… Terrible in beauty, age, and power… The genius of poets of old lands,
A Glimpse, through an interstice… Of a crowd of workmen and drivers… late of a winter night—And I unre… Of a youth who loves me, and whom… seating himself near, that he may…
A Leaf for hand in hand! You natural persons old and young! You on the Mississippi, and on al… Mississippi! You friendly boatmen and mechanics…
That which eludes this verse and a… Unheard by sharpest ear, unform’d… Nor lore nor fame, nor happiness n… And yet the pulse of every heart a… incessantly,
Come, I will make the continent i… I will make the most splendid race… I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life—long love of comrade…
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! Let every one answer! let those wh… let none evade! (How much longer must we go on wit… and sneaking?
BY the City Dead-House, by the g… As idly sauntering, wending my way… I curious pause—for lo! an outcast… prostitute brought; Her corpse they deposit unclaim’d,…
WHAT General has a good army in… He happy in himself, or she happy…
A MASK—a perpetual natural disgu… Concealing her face, concealing he… Changes and transformations every… ment, Falling upon her even when she sle…
NOT the pilot has charged himself… into port, though beaten back, and… baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating i… long,
WOMEN sit, or move to and fro—so… young; The young are beautiful—but the ol… ful than the young.
1 GREAT are the myths—I too de… Great are Adam and Eve—I too loo… them; Great the risen and fallen nations… women, sages, inventors, rulers, w…
1 Now list to my morning’s romanz… To the cities and farms I sing, a… sunshine before me. 2 A young man came to me bearing… his brother;
1 To think of it! To think of time—of all that retro… To think of to—day and the ages co… forward! 2 Have you guess’d you yourself w…
1 SOMETHING startles me wher… safest; I withdraw from the still woods I… I will not go now on the pastures… I will not strip the clothes from…
1 MANHATTAN’S streets I saun… On time, space, reality—on such as… with them, prudence. 2 After all, the last explanation… about prudence,
I was looking a long while for the… It is not in those paged fables in… It is no more in the legends than… It is in the present—it is this ea… It is in Democracy—in this Americ…
1 THE indications, and tally of… Perfect sanity shows the master am… Time, always without flaw, indicat… What always indicates the poet, is… pleasant company of singers, and t…
1 On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and… savage and husky song, As I watch the bright stars shini… of the clef of the universes, and…
ME imperturbe, standing at ease i… Master of all, or mistress of all—… of irrational things, Imbued as they—passive, receptive,… Finding my occupation, poverty, no…
1 I WANDER all night in my vis… Stepping with light feet, swiftly… ping and stopping, Bending with open eyes over the sh… Wandering and confused, lost to my…
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! O I wish I could impress others a… have just been impressing me. 2 As I ebb’d with an ebb of the… As I wended the shores I know,
1 WHAT shall I give? and which… 2 Realism is mine—my miracles—Ta… Take without end—I offer them to… feet can carry you, or your eyes r… 3 Why! who makes much of a miracl…
