You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work! / You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread,
To-Day and Thee
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The appointed winners in a long-stretch'd game;
The course of Time and nations--Egypt, India, Greece and Rome;
The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,
Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books,
Garner'd for now and thee--To think of it!
The heirdom all converged in thee!
More poems by Walt Whitman
After the Supper and Talk
After the supper and talk--after the day is done, / As a friend from friends his final withdrawal prolonging,
A Noiseless Patient Spider
A noiseless patient spider, / I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Darest Thou Now O Soul
Darest thou now O soul, / Walk out with me toward the unknown region,