Poems

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night Vigil strange I kept on the field one night; When you my son and my comrade dropt […]

Virginia–The West THE noble Sire, fallen on evil days, I saw, with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing, (Memories of old in abeyance–love and faith in abeyance,) The […]

Visor’d A MASK–a perpetual natural disguiser of herself, Concealing her face, concealing her form, Changes and transformations every hour, every moment, Falling upon her even when […]

Voices NOW I make a leaf of Voices–for I have found nothing mightier than they are, And I have found that no word spoken, but is […]

Walt Whitman’s Caution TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully […]

Wandering At Morn WANDERING at morn, Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts–thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing Bird divine! Thee, […]

Warble Of Lilac-Time WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time, Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature’s sake, and sweet life’s sake–and death’s the same […]

We Two Boys Together Clinging WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going–North and South excursions making, Power […]

We Two-How Long We Were Fool’d WE two–how long we were fool’d! Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes; We are Nature–long have we been […]

Weave In, Weave In, My Hardy Life WEAVE in! weave in, my hardy life! Weave yet a soldier strong and full, for great campaigns to come; […]