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Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, ...more

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Song of myselfA child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than ...more

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Song of MyselfI have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There ...more

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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or wha...more

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

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What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretc...more

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever repr...more

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not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

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The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

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O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with th...more

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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.