Walt Whitman

1819 – 1892 · American Renaissance · 5 poems

Walt Whitman was an American poet and essayist. His work Leaves of Grass broke boundaries of form and is a cornerstone of American poetry.

Poems

1865

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,

1855

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume,

1860

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, / Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,

When I heard the learnd astronomer, / When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, / Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities filld with the foolish,