Random lines from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," every three hours or so.
All selections from the Project Gutenberg scan: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322
(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
5
What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry(79-84)
(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
5
What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry(79-84)
thick dotted roads, areas,
The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars--Nature’s pulses reap’d,
The Unexpress’d(2-5)
thick dotted roads, areas,
The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars--Nature’s pulses reap’d,
The Unexpress’d(2-5)
Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
As I Sit Writing Here(1-3)
Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
As I Sit Writing Here(1-3)
We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d(17-19)
We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d(17-19)
hospital or library,
Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America,
No Labor-Saving Machine(2-5)
hospital or library,
Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America,
No Labor-Saving Machine(2-5)
Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal;
Who Learns My Lesson Complete(24-26)
Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal;
Who Learns My Lesson Complete(24-26)
constructed here,
(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures
to come,)
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood(86-90)
constructed here,
(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures
to come,)
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood(86-90)
And over all the sky--the sky! far, far out of reach, studded,
Bivouac on a Mountain Side(6-8)
And over all the sky--the sky! far, far out of reach, studded,
Bivouac on a Mountain Side(6-8)
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and
To Him That Was Crucified(13-15)
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and
To Him That Was Crucified(13-15)
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give--we but look’d on each other,
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy(3-5)
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give--we but look’d on each other,
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy(3-5)
With nothing to show to devise from its idle years,
Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
My Legacy(6-9)
With nothing to show to devise from its idle years,
Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
My Legacy(6-9)
readers belov’d,
We never met, and neer shall meet--and yet our souls embrace, long,
close and long;)
Thanks in Old Age(7-11)
readers belov’d,
We never met, and neer shall meet--and yet our souls embrace, long,
close and long;)
Thanks in Old Age(7-11)
Once living men--once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,
The Wallabout Martyrs(2-4)
Once living men--once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,
The Wallabout Martyrs(2-4)
They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,
They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves,
Tests(2-5)
They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,
They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves,
Tests(2-5)
O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful(6-8)
O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful(6-8)
Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to
To a Common Prostitute(1-4)
Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to
To a Common Prostitute(1-4)
They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and
To Him That Was Crucified(12-15)
They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and
To Him That Was Crucified(12-15)
(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)
The insane knife toward the Mother of All.
The noble son on sinewy feet advancing,
Virginia--The West(1-5)
(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)
The insane knife toward the Mother of All.
The noble son on sinewy feet advancing,
Virginia--The West(1-5)
I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes,
Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me,
The Mystic Trumpeter(2-5)
I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes,
Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me,
The Mystic Trumpeter(2-5)
Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
At dusk that lookist on Senegal, at morn America,
To the Man-of-War-Bird(15-18)
Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
At dusk that lookist on Senegal, at morn America,
To the Man-of-War-Bird(15-18)
Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
Eidolons, eidolons.
Beyond thy lectures learn’d professor,
Eidolons(57-61)
Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
Eidolons, eidolons.
Beyond thy lectures learn’d professor,
Eidolons(57-61)
I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the
scaffold in Virginia,
Year of Meteors [1859-60(2-5)
I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the
scaffold in Virginia,
Year of Meteors [1859-60(2-5)
Visor’d(2-3)
Visor’d(2-3)
Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,
With rosy tinge reddening the land he’d served,
As the Greek’s Signal Flame(1-4)
Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,
With rosy tinge reddening the land he’d served,
As the Greek’s Signal Flame(1-4)
A Prairie Sunset(5-6)
A Prairie Sunset(5-6)