Poems

To Foreign Lands I HEARD that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy; Therefore I […]

To Him That Was Crucified MY spirit to yours, dear brother; Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you; I do not […]

To Old Age I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great Sea.

To One Shortly To Die FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you: You are to die–Let others tell you what […]

To Oratists TO ORATISTS–to male or female, Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to use words. Are you full-lung’d and limber-lipp’d from long trial? […]

To Rich Givers WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money–these, as I rendezvous with my poems; […]

To The East And To The West TO the East and to the West; To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania, To the […]

To The Garden The World TO THE garden, the world, anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and […]

To The Leaven’d Soil They Trod TO the leaven’d soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor […]

To The Man-of-War-Bird THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions, (Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended’st, […]