What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have ever read.
Category: Walt Whitman
This article is about the biography of Walt Whitman. For his poetic influence, see Poetry in the early 19th century.
Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems;
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won
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Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.