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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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In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street and every one is signed by God's...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 have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one th...more

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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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In the faces of men and women I see God.

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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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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

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Why should I wish to see God better than this day?I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,In the faces of men and wo...more

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

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

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One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, ...more