Poems

Once I Pass’d Through A Populous City ONCE I pass’d through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and […]

One Hour To Madness And Joy ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! (What is this that frees me so in […]

One Song, America, Before I Go ONE song, America, before I go, I’d sing, o’er all the rest, with trumpet sound, For thee–the Future. I’d sow […]

One Sweeps By ONE sweeps by, attended by an immense train, All emblematic of peace–not a soldier or menial among them. One sweeps by, old, with […]

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 sing; […]

Or From That Sea Of Time OR, from that Sea of Time, Spray, blown by the wind–a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells; (O little shells, […]

Other May Praise What They Like OTHERS may praise what they like; But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing, in art, or […]

Out From Behind His Mask OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask, (All straighter, liker Masks rejected–this preferr’d,) This common curtain of the face, contain’d in […]

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking . Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, […]

Out of the Rolling Ocean, The Crowd OUT of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me, Whispering, I love you, before long […]