Poems

Rise, O Days RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep! Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I devour’d what the earth […]

Roaming In Thought ROAMING in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is […]

Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these; Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods, and from the pond-side, […]

Salut Au Monde O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join’d unended links, each hook’d to the next! Each […]

Savantism THITHER, as I look, I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated; Thither hours, months, years–thither trades, compacts, establishments, even […]

Says I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. I say nourish a great intellect, a great brain; If I […]

Scented Herbage Of My Breast SCENTED herbage of my breast, Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused best afterwards, Tomb-leaves, body-leaves, growing up […]

Sea-Shore Memories . OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands, […]

Shut Not Your Doors, &c. SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill’d shelves, yet needed most, […]

Sing Of The Banner At Day-Break POET. O A new song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind’s […]