(31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892 / New York / United States)

poet Walt Whitman
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A Song


COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;
I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades.


I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of
America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over
the prairies;
I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about each other's
necks;
By the love of comrades,
By the manly love of comrades.


For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you, ma femme! 10
For you! for you, I am trilling these songs,
In the love of comrades,
In the high-towering love of comrades.

Submitted: Tuesday, December 31, 2002


Read poems about / on: america, sun, love, song, life, river, city, tree

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  • Carlos Echeverria (1/4/2013 10:51:00 AM)

    Whitman's romanticism intoxicated this poem...the promise of America, its boundless opportunities, daunting potential- made Whitman giddy with hope and optimism. And he had no qualms about using homoerotic imagery to drive, ahem, his point home.

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  • Mark Jensen (1/4/2013 1:35:00 AM)

    Not one of Whitman's finest moments.

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  • Jon Babineau (1/4/2012 8:50:00 PM)

    good. but a little peculiar. formatting is different

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  • Ramesh Rai (1/4/2012 4:25:00 AM)

    NICE SONG, I LIKE IT.

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  • Kevin Straw (1/4/2010 7:09:00 AM)

    What on earth is Marina Paiae doing? She allows no comments - a sure sign of intellectual cowardice.

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  • Kevin Straw (1/4/2010 7:07:00 AM)

    Balderdash. Highflown, windy, bladerdash. The Nazis could boast of the love of comrades.

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  • JOSEPH POEWHIT (1/4/2010 3:22:00 AM)

    More like a prophecy for America. Whitman embraced the feeling of the time, seeing the expansion and growth that would be America in the future. Whitman's compassion for people comes forth brilliantly.

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  • Sadiqullah Khan (1/4/2010 2:37:00 AM)

    Comrades and democracy does not go well together, in this rhetoric.

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  • Ramesh T A (1/4/2010 1:29:00 AM)

    Love and brotherhood to be cherished most in democracy are what Walt Whitman has expressed passionately inspiring all in this unique poem of his natural desire!

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