To Those Who've Fail'd
To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast, / To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,
I Dream'd in a Dream
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I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the
whole of the rest of the earth,
I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.
More poems by Walt Whitman
To Thee Old Cause
To thee old cause! / Thou peerless, passionate, good cause,
Sounds of the Winter
Sounds of the winter too, / Sunshine upon the mountains--many a distant strain
Thought
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and / rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own