Poems

So Far And So Far, And On Toward The End SO far, and so far, and on toward the end, Singing what is sung in this […]

So Long TO conclude–I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart. I remember I said, before […]

Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb SOLID, ironical, rolling orb! Master of all, and matter of fact!–at last I accept your terms; Bringing to practical, vulgar tests, of […]

Sometimes With One I Love SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn’d love; But now I think there […]

Song At Sunset SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic–hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat–you, divine average! You, Earth and Life, till […]

Song For All Seas, All Ships TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal; Of unnamed heroes […]

Song of Myself . I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs […]

Song Of The Broad-Axe WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother’s bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and lip only one! […]

Song Of The Exposition . AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, To give […]

Song Of The Open Road AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, […]