Poems

To The Reader At Parting NOW, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhile–Here! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, […]

To The States WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing? What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters! Who are they, as bats and […]

To Thee, Old Cause! TO thee, old Cause! Thou peerless, passionate, good cause! Thou stern, remorseless, sweet Idea! Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands! After a […]

To Think Of Time To think of time–of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess’d you yourself would […]

To You STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not […]

Trinckle, Drops TRICKLE, drops! my blue veins leaving! O drops of me! trickle, slow drops, Candid, from me falling–drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free […]

Turn, O Libertad TURN, O Libertad, for the war is over, (From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,) Turn from […]

Two Rivulets TWO Rivulets side by side, Two blended, parallel, strolling tides, Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey. For the Eternal Ocean bound, These ripples, passing […]

Unfolded Out Of The Folds UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded; Unfolded only out of […]

Unnamed Lands NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States; Garner’d clusters of ages, that men and women […]