Read Time < 1 mins    O, Death! a black and pierce-less pall Hangs round thee, and the future state; No eye may see, no mind may grasp That mystery of fate. […]

Read Time < 1 mins  One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor […]

Read Time < 1 mins    Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever […]

Read Time < 1 mins  O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells […]

Read Time < 1 mins  Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar […]

Read Time < 1 mins    I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing […]

Read Time < 1 mins  A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, […]

Read Time 2 mins  Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,Like lightning it le’pt forth half startled at itself,Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, […]

Read Time 2 mins  TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here’s a good place at the corner—I must stand and see the show. Clear the way there, […]

Read Time 3 mins    There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object […]