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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – “For Him I Sing”

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ “For Him I Sing” For him I sing, I raise the present on the past, (As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – Eidolons

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ Eidolans I met a seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, To glean eidolons. Put in … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – To Thee Old Cause

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ To Thee Old Cause To thee old cause! Thou peerless, passionate, good cause, Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea, Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands, After a … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – To A Historian

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ To a Historian You who celebrate bygones, Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has             … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – To Foreign Lands

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ Insriptions To Foreign Lands I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – In Cabin’d Ships at Sea

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ Inscriptions In Cabin’d Ships at Sea In cabin’d ships at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the waves, … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – As I Ponder’d in Silence

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ Inscriptions As I Ponder’d in Silence As I ponder’d in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect, … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – One’s-Self I Sing

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ Inscriptions One’s-Self I Sing One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I … Continue reading

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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Title-page epigraph

Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass ~ ❦ ~ [Title page epigraph] Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, … Continue reading

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