Famous Materialism Poems by Famous Poets

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...complete women and men—their pose brawny and supple, their drink water,
 their blood clean and clear;
They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products—they shall enjoy the sight of
 the
 beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city; 
They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses; 
Strong and sweet shall their tongues be—poems and materials of poems shall come from
 their
 lives—they shall be makers and finders; 
Of them, and of ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Song of Myself

...etes all; 
That mystic, baffling wonder I love, alone completes all. 

I accept reality, and dare not question it; 
Materialism first and last imbuing. 

Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!
Fetch stonecrop, mixt with cedar and branches of lilac; 
This is the lexicographer—this the chemist—this made a grammar of the
 old cartouches; 
These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas; 
This is the geologist—this works with the scalpel...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

With Antecedents

...torn, stormy, even as I, amid these vehement days,) 
I have the idea of all, and am all, and believe in all; 
I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true—I reject no part.

Have I forgotten any part? 
Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition. 

I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews; 
I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god; 
I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception;
I assert that all past...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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