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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... wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble, They rise together, they slowly circle around. I believe ... woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me, And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me ...
... woods, Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses, I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out. What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me, Me going in for my ...
... in the frozen surface, The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe, Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river.
... woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch, Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving their big proportions,) Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat, A learner with ...
... woods? Do I astonish more than they? This hour I tell things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you. 20 Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; How is it I extract strength from the beef I.
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