Walt Whitman's Poetry, by written

• One's Self I Sing

  ONE'S-SELF I sing--a simple, separate Person;
  Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse.

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• In Cabin'd Ships At Sea

  IN cabin'd ships, at sea,
  The boundless blue on every side expanding,

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• To Foreign Lands

  I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle, the New
          World,

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• To A Historian

  YOU who celebrate bygones!
  Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races--the life

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• For Him I Sing

  FOR him I sing,
  I raise the Present on the Past,

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• When I Read The Book

  WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,
  And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's life?

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• Beginning My Studies

  BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much,
  The mere fact, consciousness--these forms--the power of motion,

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• To Thee, Old Cause!

  TO thee, old Cause!
  Thou peerless, passionate, good cause!

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• Starting From Paumanok

  STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,
  Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother;

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• The Ship Starting

  LO! THE unbounded sea!
  On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sails--an ample

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• Unfolded Out Of The Folds

  UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is
          always to come unfolded;

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• To You

  STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why
  should you not speak to me?

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• To The Garden The World

  TO THE garden, the world, anew ascending,
  Potent mates, daughters, sons,&nbs

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• Laws For Creations

  LAWS for Creations,
  For strong artists and leaders—for fresh broods of teachers, and

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• Visor'd

  A MASK--a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
  Concealing her face, concealing her form,

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• From Pent-up Aching Rivers

  FROM pent-up, aching rivers;
  From that of myself, without which I were&

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• I Sing The Body Electric

  I sing the Body electric;
  The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;

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• A Woman Waits For Me

  A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking,
  Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of th

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• Spontaneous Me

  SPONTANEOUS me, Nature,
  The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I&

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• One Hour To Madness And Joy

  ONE hour to madness and joy!
  O furious! O confine me not!

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• We Two-How Long We Were Fool'd

  WE two--how long we were fool'd!
  Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as&

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• Out of the Rolling Ocean, The Crowd

  Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,
  Whispering, I love you, before long I die,

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• Native Moments

  NATIVE moments! when you come upon me--Ah you are here now! Give me now
  libidinous joys

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• Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City

  ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for
  future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and

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• Facing West From California's Shores

  FACING west, from California's shores,
  Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is

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• Ages And Ages, Returning At Intervals

  AGES and ages, returning at intervals,
  Undestroy'd, wandering immortal,

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• O Hymen! O Hymenee!

  O HYMEN! O hymenee!
  Why do you tantalize me thus?

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• As Adam, Early In The Morning

  AS Adam, early in the morning,
  Walking forth from the bower, refresh'd with sleep;

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• I Heard You, Solemn-sweep Pipes Of The Organ

  I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I
  pass'd the church;

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• I Am He That Aches With Love

  I AM he that aches with amorous love;
  Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all

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