Walt Whitman's Poetry, by popularity

• Election Day, November 1884

  If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  ’Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairi

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• Thoughts

  Of public opinion,
  Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!)

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• Lo! Victress On The Peaks

  LO! Victress on the peaks!
  Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world,

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• One Sweeps By

  ONE sweeps by, attended by an immense train,
  All emblematic of peace--not a soldier or menial among them.

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• After an Interval

  (November 22, 1875, Midnight—Saturn and Mars in Conjunction)
  AFTER an interval, reading, here in the midnight,

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• The Torch

  ON my northwest coast in the midst of the night, a fishermen's group
  stands watching;

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• Locations And Times

  LOCATIONS and times--what is it in me that meets them all, whenever
  and wherever, and makes me at home?

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• Offerings

  A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
  Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and

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• Tests

  ALL submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to
  analysis, in the Soul;

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• Spain 1873-'74

  OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds,
  Out of the feudal wrecks, and&

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• The Prairie States

  A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
  Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,

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• Spirit That Form'd This Scene

  SPIRIT that form'd this scene,
  These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,

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• O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig!

  O BITTER sprig! Confession sprig!
  In the bouquet I give you place also--I bind you in,

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• Thick-Sprinkled Bunting

  THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars!
  Long yet your road, fateful flag!--long yet your road, and lined with

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• To A Certain Cantatrice

  HERE, take this gift!
  I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or General,

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• Other May Praise What They Like

  OTHERS may praise what they like;
  But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing, in

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• Eidólons

  I MET a Seer,
  Passing the hues and obj

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• Roaming In Thought

  ROAMING in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good
  steadily hastening towards immortality,

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• Hast Never Come To Thee An Hour

  HAST never come to thee an hour,
  A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles,

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• How Solemn As One By One

  HOW solemn, as one by one,
  As the ranks returning, all worn and&nb

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• Turn, O Libertad

  TURN, O Libertad, for the war is over,
  (From it and all henceforth

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• To Oratists

  TO ORATISTS--to male or female,
  Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination,

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• Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States

  SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
  Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled at itself,

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• Souvenirs Of Democracy

  THE business man, the acquirer vast,
  After assiduous years, surveying result

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• Virginia--The West

  The noble sire fallen on evil days,
  I saw with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing,

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• Wandering At Morn

  WANDERING at morn,
  Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts--thee in&nb

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• Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me

  NOT my enemies ever invade me--no harm to my pride from them I fear;
  But the lovers I recklessly love--lo! how they master me!

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• To A Certain Civilian

  DID YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me?
  Did you seek the civilian's pea

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• Sparkles From The Wheel

  WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day,
  Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching—I pause aside wit

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• Night On The Prairies

  NIGHT on the prairies;
  The supper is over--the fire on the ground

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