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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LEAVES OF GRASS': TITLE PAGE, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, said my soul Last Line: Singing for soul and body, set to them my name Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | |||
Come, said my Soul, Such verses for my Body let us write (for we are one), That should I after death invisibly 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 pleased smile I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owing''"as, first-I here and now, Singing for Soul and Body, set to them my name. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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