The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 2003 M12 30 - 608 pages A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
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... crowd that day, had not yet faced the emergent conditions of American life. They were too busy being poetic. “It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem,” he declared. “Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus ...
... crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd, The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes, What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits, What ...
... , The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs, Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece; The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
... crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the menjeer and wink to each other, (Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths norjeer you;) The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries, On the piazza walk three ...
... crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic. 26 Now I will do nothing ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |