Leaves of Grass

the Op

t-hearted I take

ree, the wor

th before me leadin

ot good-fortune, I m

r no more, postpone n

mplaints, libraries,

ontent I trave

h, that is

the constellat

are very well

fice for those wh

carry my old d

d women, I carry them

mpossible for me

them, and I will fi

n and look around, I b

that i

at much unseen

sson of reception, nor

woolly head, the fe

ate person, a

g after the physician,

agger, the laughing

rich person's carriage, t

, the hearse, the movi

e return back

ss, any thing passes,

epted, none but sh

serves me with

from diffusion my mean

me and all things in de

the irregular holl

nt with unseen existence

f the cities! you str

anks and posts of wha

! you dist

! you window-pierc'd

ntrances! you copin

transparent shells m

d ascending st

nterminable pavements!

touch'd you I believ

now would impart the

e dead you have peopled

thereof would be evide

anding right ha

ive, every part

where it is wanted, a

not

he public road, the gay f

el, do you say to

re not-if you leav

ady prepared, I am wel

adhere

ack I am not afraid to l

better than I c

e more to me

were all conceiv'd in

ree poe

stop here myself

all meet on the road I

lds me sha

oever I see

in myself loos'd of lim

st, my own master

ers, considering w

ching, receivin

niable will, divesting

would

great draug

are mine, and the nort

r, better th

now I held so

ms beauti

men and women You hav

ld do the s

it for myself

myself among men

w gladness and rou

es me it shall

e or she shall be bles

fect men were to appear

autiful forms of women

astoni

ret of the making o

open air and to eat a

at personal

upon the hearts of t

ength and will overwh

and all argume

the test

t finally test

'd from one having it t

, is not susceptible of

es and objects and qu

the reality and immort

ellence o

the float of the sight

out of

ine philosophie

n lecture-rooms, yet no

and along the landscap

is real

ied-he realizes here

, majesty, love-if the

e vacant

nel of every o

tears off the hu

oes stratagems and env

it is not previously f

t is as you pass to

e talk of those

he efflux o

ul comes from within t

provoking

they? these thoughts in

women that while they

xpands

me do my pennants of j

I never walk under b

ghts desce

ere winter and summer o

p fruit a

erchange so sudden

iver as I ride on t

man drawing his seine b

and

free to a woman's an

them to be f

soul is happiness,

es the open air, wa

unto us, we are

e fluid and att

ng character is the fre

man an

rning sprout no freshe

of themselves, than it

nually out

attaching character e

e of youn

'd the charm that mocks

the shuddering long

er you are come

h me you find w

rth neve

lent, incomprehensible

comprehensib

eep on, there are divin

e divine things more beau

we must no

aid-up stores, however

cannot re

is port and however ca

ot anch

hospitality that surro

ive it but a

inducements sh

il pathless

nds blow, waves dash,

ds by unde

er, liberty, the e

e, gayety, self-e

from all

s, O bat-eyed and m

cks up the passage-the

yet take

me needs the best bl

trial till he or she br

u have already spent

e who come in sweet

rum-drinker or venereal

convince by argumen

nce by our

will be hone

ld smooth prizes, but

days that must

heap up what i

th lavish hand all tha

e city to which you we

to satisfaction befo

istible cal

to the ironical smile

remain b

love you receive you

onate kisse

he hold of those who sp

towa

great Companions, an

road-they are the swif

the grea

alms of seas an

ship, walkers of m

nt countries, habitues o

women, observers of ci

ators of tufts, blosso

dances, kissers of br

en, bearers

anders by gaping graves,

ecutive seasons, over

merging from that

companions, namely th

rom the latent unr

their own youth, journ

well-grain

ir womanhood, ample,

r own sublime old age

d, broad with the haught

e with the delicious n

hich is endless as

, tramps of days,

travel they tend to, a

they t

hem in the start o

here but what you may

ever distant, but what you

no road but it stretc

but it stretches

ot God's or any, but

but you may possess i

, abstracting the feast

article

the farmer's farm and

aste blessings of the w

of orchards and f

out of the compact cit

nd streets with you af

of men out of their

ther the love out

on the road with you,

hem beh

itself as a road, as

ravelin

ay for the pro

id things, arts, govern

globe or any globe, fal

on of souls along the gra

souls of men and women

ther progress is the need

live, forev

, withdrawn, baffled,

dissat

ond, sick, accepted b

now that they go, but I

y go toward the best-

come forth! or man

eeping and dallying th

, or though it has

onfinement! out fro

o protest, I know

ugh you as ba

er, dancing, dining,

rnaments, inside of those

et silent loath

, no friend, trusted

cate of every one, skul

through the streets of

nd in the

oads, in steamboats, i

f men and women, at th

ever

tenance smiling, form u

nes, hell under

d gloves, under the ribbo

e customs, speaking no

y thing else but

rough strugg

was named cannot

ast struggle

ded? yourself? yo

l-it is provided in the

n of success, no matte

o make a greater

l of battle, I nouri

ith me must

often with spare diet,

dese

the road i

ied it-my own feet hav

deta

n on the desk unwritt

helf un

in the workshop! let th

tand! mind not the

ach in his pulpit! let

nd the judge e

, I give y

love more prec

yself before p

yourself? will you

by each other a