Excelsior
Excelsior WHO has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther? And who has been just? For I would be the most just person of […]
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Faces SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road–lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, prescient face–the always welcome, common, benevolent […]
READ MOREFacing West From California’s Shores
Facing West From California’s Shores FACING west, from California’s shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the […]
READ MOREFast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love
Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love FAST-ANCHOR’D, eternal, O love! O woman I love! O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of […]
READ MOREFor Him I Sing
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 […]
READ MOREFor You, O Democracy
For You, O Democracy Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make […]
READ MOREFrance, The 18th Year Of These States
France, The 18th Year Of These States A GREAT year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother’s heart closer than any […]
READ MOREFrom Far Dakota’s Canons
From Far Dakota’s Canons FROM far Dakota’s cañons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence, Haply to-day a mournful wail, […]
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From My Last Years FROM my last years, last thoughts I here bequeath, Scatter’d and dropt, in seeds, and wafted to the West, Through moisture of […]
READ MOREFrom Paumanok Starting
From Paumanok Starting FROM Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird, Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all; To the north betaking […]
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