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Poetry · 1855 · English

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman explores american poetry — 19th century.

From the opening pages: “Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my…”

Author
Walt Whitman
First published
1855
Category
Poetry
Language
English

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