Poems by Walt Whitman

The Americans, of all nations at any time upon the earth, have probably the fullest poetical Nature. The United States themselves is essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ample largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from stri...