YOU who celebrate bygones! Who have explored the outward, the …
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The Betrothed
Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout, For …
Read Poem »To A Foil’d European Revolutionaire
COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty …
Read Poem »The Benefactors
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured …
Read Poem »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 …
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