E-text prepared by Andrea Ball, Jon Ingram, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN by WALT WHITMAN SELECTED AND EDITED BY WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI A NEW EDITION “Or si sa il nome, o per tristo o per buono, E si sa pure al mondo ch’io ci sono.” –MICHELANGELO. “That Angels
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Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on, Ever and ever
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Online Distributed Proofreading Team. COMPLETE PROSE WORKS Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy By WALT WHITMAN CONTENTS SPECIMEN DAYS A Happy Hour’s Command Answer to an Insisting Friend Genealogy–Van Velsor and Whitman The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries The Maternal Homestead Two Old Family Interiors Paumanok, and my Life