Category: Walt Whitman

by Walt Whitman

AT the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house,
From the clasp of the knitted locks—from the keep of the well-closed
doors,
Let me be wafted.

Let me glide noiselessly forth;
With the key 

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by Walt Whitman

You who celebrate bygones,
  Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life
      that has exhibited itself,
  Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates,
      rulers and priests,
  I, habitan of 

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by Walt Whitman

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by Walt Whitman

To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
      much, obey little,
  Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
  Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
      afterward resumes 

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by Walt Whitman

STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you
	not speak to me? 
And why should I not speak to you?

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