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Wal Whitman always says it for me...

Posted by tina on April 1, 2008, at 10:57:07

Walt Whitman
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying,
neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband--I see the treacherous seducer
of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be
hid--I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny--I see martyrs and
prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea--I observe the sailors casting lots who
shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and the like;
All these--All the meanness and agony without end, I'm sitting, look
out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.

 

Re: Wal Whitman always says it for me... ยป tina

Posted by fayeroe on April 1, 2008, at 22:14:15

In reply to Wal Whitman always says it for me..., posted by tina on April 1, 2008, at 10:57:07

I really like this poem, Tina. Thank you for posting it. Pat


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