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Walt Whitman
(1819-1892 / New York / United States)
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345 poems of Walt Whitman
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Give me the splendid silent sun
with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows,
Give me...
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (l. 1-5). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; r...
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''Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of the Open Road," sct. 7 (1856).
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(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
Keep your splendid silent sun,
Keep your woods O Nature, an...
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (l. 18-24). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975;...
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''Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
Old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Song of the Open Road, verse 12 (1856).
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Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as
now,
The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even
the sight of the wounded,)
Manhattan c...
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (l. 37-40). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975;...
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''In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of the Universal."
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These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and
rack'd by the war-strife,)
These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart,
While yet incessantly ...
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (l. 12-16). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975;...
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''Rugged, mountainous, volcanic, he was himself more a French revolution than any of his volumes.''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Specimen Days (Feb. 10, 1881).
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''Yet let me not be too hasty,
Long indeed have we lived, slept, filtered, become really blended
into one;''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Good-bye My Fancy! (L. 11-12). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) ...
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''I will put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea—And
I will report all heroism from an American point of view.''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Starting From Paumanok, sct. 7.
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