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Leaves of grass (1872)
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Leaves of Grass.
PASSAGE TO INDIA.
[Gliding o'er all, through all]
Passage to India.
Thought.
O Living Always—Always Dying!
Proud Music of the Storm.
ASHES OF SOLDIERS.
President Lincoln's Burial Hymn.
POEM OF JOYS.
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To Think of Time.
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC.
WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH.
SEA-SHORE MEMORIES.
Leaves of Grass.
GODS.
TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE.
Now Finale to the Shore.
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O, to sail to sea in a ship!
To leave this steady, unendurable land!
To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses;
To leave you, O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
To sail, and sail, and sail!
Leaves of grass (1872)