Friendship Poems

Friendship Poems by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Biography

Walter Whitman, the second of nine children to be born to Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, was born in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island, on May 31, […]

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Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All.

By Walt Whitman PENSIVE, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All, Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing; (As the last gun […]

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Mother and Babe.

By Walt Whitman I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; The sleeping mother and babe–hush’d, I study them long and long.

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