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To A Common Prostitute
BE composed–be at ease with me–I am Walt Whitman, liberal …
Read Poem »The Bells and Queen Victoria
“Gay go up and gay go down To ring the …
Read Poem »To A Certain Civilian
DID YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me? Did you seek …
Read Poem »The Bell Buoy
They christened my brother of old– And a saintly name …
Read Poem »To A Certain Cantatrice
HERE, take this gift! I was reserving it for some …
Read Poem »The Beginnings
It was not part of their blood, It came to …
Read Poem »Thoughts
OF ownership–As if one fit to own things could not …
Read Poem »The Beginning of the Armadilloes
I’ve never sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But …
Read Poem »Thought
OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look, …
Read Poem »The Beginner
After He Has Been Extemporising On an Instrument Not Of …
Read Poem »Thou Reader
THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same …
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