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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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''I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame,''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. I Sit and Look Out (l. 1). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Peng...
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At the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house,
From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors,
Let me be wafted.
Let me ...
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. The Last Invocation (l. 1-8). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) P...
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''Joy, shipmate, joy!
(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (L. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) P...
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On a flat road runs the well-trained runner,
He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists and arms partially ra...
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. The Runner (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Bo...
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''The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Leaves of Grass, preface (1855).
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''The world below the brine,
Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. The World below the Brine (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1...
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Their manners, speech, dress, friendships,—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage—their deathless attachment to freedom—their ave...
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Leaves of Grass, preface (1855).
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''What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest
remains?''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. The Wound-Dresser (l. 11-12). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) P...
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''The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.''
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Leaves of Grass, preface (1855).
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I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,
(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. The Wound-Dresser (l. 62-65). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) P...
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