Walt Whitman

1819-1892 / Male / American
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Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought, / To memory of Him—to birth of Him.
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A Noiseless Patient SpiderA noiseless patient spider, / I marked where on a promontory it stood isolated, / Marked how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
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As I Watch’d The Ploughman PloughingAs I watch’d the ploughman ploughing, / Or the sower sowing in the fields—or the harvester harvesting, / I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
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A Woman Waits For MeA woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, / Yet all were lacking if *** were lacking, or if the moisture of the / right man were lacking.
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Beat! Beat! Drums!1 / Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow! / Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
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Beautiful WomenWomen sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young; / The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry1 / Flood-Tide below me! I see you face to face! / Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face
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Drum-TapsAroused and angry, / I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war; / But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d, and I resign’d myself,
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Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States1 / Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, / Like lightning it le’pt forth, half startled at itself,
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France, The 18Th Year Of These States1 / A great year and place; / A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother’s heart
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