The Rhodora
On Being Asked, Whence is the Flower? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp...
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04
August
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.
Footsteps of Angels
When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And,...
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03
August
Delight Alone!
In the surging swell Where joys abound, In perfumed wavelets' Trembling sound, In the world's soft breathing Whisp'ring round - To drown thus - sink down thus - all thought gone - delight...
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02
August
The Wanderer
I come down from the mountains The valley dims, the sea roars. I wander silently and am somewhat unhappy. And my sighs always ask "where?" The sun seems so cold...
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01
August
The Learn’d Astronomer
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and...
By Walt Whitman
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31
July
Dirge of Love
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white,...
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30
July
Prayer of Columbus
My terminus near, The clouds already closing in upon me, The voyage balk’d—the course disputed, lost, I yield my ships to Thee. Steersman unseen! henceforth the helms are Thine; Take Thou...
By Walt Whitman
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29
July
Prometheus Unbound
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to...
28
July
X
Unknown, she was my favorite shape, She who relieved me of the worry of being a man, And I see her and I lose her and I suffer My...
By Paul Eluard
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27
July
O My Beloved!
MY body and my mind are grieved for the want of Thee; O my Beloved! come to my house. When people say I am Thy bride, I am...
By Kabir
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26
July
A Psalm of Life
What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that...
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24
July