Poems

To A Certain Cantatrice HERE, take this gift! I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or General, One who should serve the good old cause, […]

To A Certain Civilian DID YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me? Did you seek the civilian’s peaceful and languishing rhymes? Did you find what I sang […]

To A Common Prostitute BE composed–be at ease with me–I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature; Not till the sun excludes you, do I […]

To A Foil’d European Revolutionaire COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv’d, whatever occurs; That is nothing, that is […]

To A Historian YOU who celebrate bygones! Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races–the life that has exhibited itself; Who have treated of […]

To A Locomotive In Winter THEE for my recitative! Thee in the driving storm, even as now–the snow–the winter-day declining; Thee in thy panoply, thy measured […]

To A President ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, You have not learn’d of Nature–of the politics of Nature, you have […]

To A Pupil IS reform needed? Is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it. You! do […]

To A Stranger PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I was […]

To A Western Boy O BOY of the West! To you many things to absorb, I teach, to help you become eleve of mine: Yet if […]