Walt Whitman: One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet u
One's-self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En. Masse.
Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy
for the Muse, I say the Form complete is
worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
Walt Whitman
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Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
Whit the life-long love of comra...
Poets to come! Orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
but you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
Arouse! For yo...
Tu lettore, palpiti di vita, orgoglio, amore, al pari di me,
siano dunque per te i canti che seguono.