Poetry Catalog

Good-bye my Fancy!Farewell dear mate, dear love!I’m going away, I know not where,Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again,So Good-bye my Fancy. Now for my last—let me look back a moment;The slower fainter ticking of the clock is in me,Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping. Long have we lived, joy’d, caress’d together;Delightful!—now … [Read more...] about Good-Bye My Fancy!, By: Walt Whitman

Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well,Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn,Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping;Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them waiting,(On earth and in the sea—the universe—the stars there in theheavens,)Urging slowly, surely … [Read more...] about Unseen Buds, By: Walt Whitman

Grand is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen … [Read more...] about Grand Is The Seen, By: Walt Whitman

How dare one say it?After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,Vaunted Ionia’s, India’s—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times’ thick dotted roads, areas,The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature’s pulses reap’d,All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,All ages’ plummets dropt to their utmost depths,All human lives, throats, wishes, brains—all … [Read more...] about The Unexpress’d, By: Walt Whitman

Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.Haughty this song, its words and scope,To span vast realms of space and time,Evolution—the cumulative—growths and generations. Begun in ripen’d youth and steadily pursued,Wandering, peering, dallying with … [Read more...] about L. Of G.’s Purport, By: Walt Whitman