The Essential Works of Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman

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style="font-size:15px;">       O you shunn’d persons, I at least do not shun you,

       I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,

       I will be more to you than to any of the rest.

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      Once I pass’d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future

       use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,

       Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met

       there who detain’d me for love of me,

       Day by day and night by night we were together — all else has long

       been forgotten by me,

       I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,

       Again we wander, we love, we separate again,

       Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,

       I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.

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      I heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I

       pass’d the church,

       Winds of autumn, as I walk’d the woods at dusk I heard your long-

       stretch’d sighs up above so mournful,

       I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the

       soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;

       Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the

       wrists around my head,

       Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last

       night under my ear.

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      Facing west from California’s shores,

       Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,

       I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity,

       the land of migrations, look afar,

       Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;

       For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,

       From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,

       From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,

       Long having wander’d since, round the earth having wander’d,

       Now I face home again, very pleas’d and joyous,

       (But where is what I started for so long ago?

       And why is it yet unfound?)

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      As Adam early in the morning,

       Walking forth from the bower refresh’d with sleep,

       Behold me where I pass, hear my voice, approach,

       Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,

       Be not afraid of my body.

      BOOK V. CALAMUS

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      In paths untrodden,

      In the growth by margins of pond-waters,

       Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,

       From all the standards hitherto publish’d, from the pleasures,

       profits, conformities,

       Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,

       Clear to me now standards not yet publish’d, clear to me that my soul,

       That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,

       Here by myself away from the clank of the world,

       Tallying and talk’d to here by tongues aromatic,

       No longer abash’d, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I

       would not dare elsewhere,)

       Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains

       all the rest,

       Resolv’d to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,

       Projecting them along that substantial life,

       Bequeathing hence types of athletic love,

       Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year,

       I proceed for all who are or have been young men,

       To tell the secret my nights and days,

       To celebrate the need of comrades.

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      Scented herbage of my breast,

       Leaves from you I glean, I write, to be perused best afterwards,

       Tomb-leaves, body-leaves growing up above me above death,

      

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