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Written by Walt Whitman | Create an image from this poem

Now List to my Morning's Romanza

 1
NOW list to my morning’s romanza—I tell the signs of the Answerer; 
To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before me. 

A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother; 
How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother? 
Tell him to send me the signs.

And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand,
 and his
 left
 hand in my right hand, 
And I answer for his brother, and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and
 send
 these
 signs. 

2
Him all wait for—him all yield up to—his word is decisive and final, 
Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves, as amid light, 
Him they immerse, and he immerses them.

Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals, 
The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean, (so tell I my morning’s
 romanza;)

All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy, 
The best farms—others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps, 
The noblest and costliest cities—others grading and building, and he domiciles there;
Nothing for any one, but what is for him—near and far are for him, the ships in the
 offing, 
The perpetual shows and marches on land, are for him, if they are for any body. 

He puts things in their attitudes; 
He puts to-day out of himself, with plasticity and love; 
He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations,
 employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command
 them.

He is the answerer: 
What can be answer’d he answers—and what cannot be answer’d, he shows how
 it
 cannot
 be answer’d. 

3
A man is a summons and challenge; 
(It is vain to skulk—Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical
 echoes?) 

Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down,
 seeking
 to
 give satisfaction;
He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also. 

Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely,
 by
 day or
 by night; 
He has the pass-key of hearts—to him the response of the prying of hands on the
 knobs. 

His welcome is universal—the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he
 is; 
The person he favors by day, or sleeps with at night, is blessed.

4
Every existence has its idiom—everything has an idiom and tongue; 
He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and
 any
 man
 translates himself also; 
One part does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they
 join. 

He says indifferently and alike, How are you, friend? to the President at his
 levee, 
And he says, Good-day, my brother! to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
And both understand him, and know that his speech is right. 

He walks with perfect ease in the Capitol, 
He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal,
 appearing
 and new. 

Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic, 
And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow’d
 the
 sea,
And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist, 
And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them; 
No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it, or has follow’d it, 
No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there. 

The English believe he comes of their English stock,
A Jew to the Jew he seems—a Russ to the Russ—usual and near, removed from none. 

Whoever he looks at in the traveler’s coffee-house claims him, 
The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure, and
 the
 island
 Cuban is sure; 
The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi, or St. Lawrence, or
 Sacramento, or Hudson, or Paumanok Sound, claims him. 

The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood;
The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of
 him—he strangely transmutes them, 
They are not vile any more—they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.


Written by Walt Whitman | Create an image from this poem

Indications The

 THE indications, and tally of time; 
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; 
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts; 
What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their
 words; 
The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark—but the words
 of
 the
 maker of poems are the general light and dark;
The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality, 
His insight and power encircle things and the human race, 
He is the glory and extract thus far, of things, and of the human race. 

The singers do not beget—only the POET begets; 
The singers are welcom’d, understood, appear often enough—but rare has the day
 been,
 likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
(Not every century, or every five centuries, has contain’d such a day, for all its
 names.)


The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of
 each of
 them
 is one of the singers, 
The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, echo-singer,
 parlor-singer,
 love-singer, or something else. 

All this time, and at all times, wait the words of true poems; 
The words of true poems do not merely please,
The true poets are not followers of beauty, but the august masters of beauty; 
The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers, 
The words of poems are the tuft and final applause of science. 

Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body,
 withdrawnness,

Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness—such are some of the words of poems.

The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the answerer; 
The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist—all these underlie
 the
 maker of
 poems, the answerer. 

The words of the true poems give you more than poems, 
They give you to form for yourself, poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,
 histories,
 essays, romances, and everything else, 
They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
They do not seek beauty—they are sought, 
Forever touching them, or close upon them, follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick. 

They prepare for death—yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset, 
They bring none to his or her terminus, or to be content and full; 
Whom they take, they take into space, to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the
 meanings,
To launch off with absolute faith—to sweep through the ceaseless rings, and never be
 quiet
 again.THE indications, and tally of time; 
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; 
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts; 
What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their
 words; 
The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark—but the words
 of
 the
 maker of poems are the general light and dark;
The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality, 
His insight and power encircle things and the human race, 
He is the glory and extract thus far, of things, and of the human race. 

The singers do not beget—only the POET begets; 
The singers are welcom’d, understood, appear often enough—but rare has the day
 been,
 likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
(Not every century, or every five centuries, has contain’d such a day, for all its
 names.)


The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of
 each of
 them
 is one of the singers, 
The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, echo-singer,
 parlor-singer,
 love-singer, or something else. 

All this time, and at all times, wait the words of true poems; 
The words of true poems do not merely please,
The true poets are not followers of beauty, but the august masters of beauty; 
The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers, 
The words of poems are the tuft and final applause of science. 

Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body,
 withdrawnness,

Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness—such are some of the words of poems.

The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the answerer; 
The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist—all these underlie
 the
 maker of
 poems, the answerer. 

The words of the true poems give you more than poems, 
They give you to form for yourself, poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,
 histories,
 essays, romances, and everything else, 
They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
They do not seek beauty—they are sought, 
Forever touching them, or close upon them, follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick. 

They prepare for death—yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset, 
They bring none to his or her terminus, or to be content and full; 
Whom they take, they take into space, to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the
 meanings,
To launch off with absolute faith—to sweep through the ceaseless rings, and never be
 quiet
 again.THE indications, and tally of time; 
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; 
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts; 
What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their
 words; 
The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark—but the words
 of
 the
 maker of poems are the general light and dark;
The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality, 
His insight and power encircle things and the human race, 
He is the glory and extract thus far, of things, and of the human race. 

The singers do not beget—only the POET begets; 
The singers are welcom’d, understood, appear often enough—but rare has the day
 been,
 likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
(Not every century, or every five centuries, has contain’d such a day, for all its
 names.)


The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of
 each of
 them
 is one of the singers, 
The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, echo-singer,
 parlor-singer,
 love-singer, or something else. 

All this time, and at all times, wait the words of true poems; 
The words of true poems do not merely please,
The true poets are not followers of beauty, but the august masters of beauty; 
The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers, 
The words of poems are the tuft and final applause of science. 

Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body,
 withdrawnness,

Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness—such are some of the words of poems.

The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the answerer; 
The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist—all these underlie
 the
 maker of
 poems, the answerer. 

The words of the true poems give you more than poems, 
They give you to form for yourself, poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,
 histories,
 essays, romances, and everything else, 
They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
They do not seek beauty—they are sought, 
Forever touching them, or close upon them, follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick. 

They prepare for death—yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset, 
They bring none to his or her terminus, or to be content and full; 
Whom they take, they take into space, to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the
 meanings,
To launch off with absolute faith—to sweep through the ceaseless rings, and never be
 quiet
 again.
Written by Thomas Hardy | Create an image from this poem

Natures Questioning

 WHEN I look forth at dawning, pool,
Field, flock, and lonely tree,
All seem to look at me
Like chastened children sitting silent in a school;

Their faces dulled, constrained, and worn,
As though the master's ways
Through the long teaching days
Their first terrestrial zest had chilled and overborne.

And on them stirs, in lippings mere
(As if once clear in call,
But now scarce breathed at all)--
"We wonder, ever wonder, why we find us here!

"Has some Vast Imbecility,
Mighty to build and blend,
But impotent to tend,
Framed us in jest, and left us now to hazardry?

"Or come we of an Automaton
Unconscious of our pains?...
Or are we live remains
Of Godhead dying downwards, brain and eye now gone?

"Or is it that some high Plan betides,
As yet not understood,
Of Evil stormed by Good,
We the Forlorn Hope over which Achievement strides?"

Thus things around. No answerer I....
Meanwhile the winds, and rains,
And Earth's old glooms and pains
Are still the same, and gladdest Life Death neighbors nigh.

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