Walt Whitman - I Sit and Look Out

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 upon negroes, and the like;
All these--all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.

Submited by

Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 15:04

Poesia Consagrada :

No votes yet

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's picture
Offline
Title: Membro
Last seen: 13 years 50 weeks ago
Joined: 04/08/2011
Posts:
Points: 849

Add comment

Login to post comments

other contents of Walt Whitman

Topic Title Replies Views Last Postsort icon Language
Poesia Consagrada/Biography Walt Whitman Biography 0 6.000 04/13/2011 - 17:13 English
Poesia Consagrada/Biography Walt Whitman Biografia 0 11.906 04/13/2011 - 17:10 Spanish
Poesia Consagrada/Biography Walt Whitman Biografia 0 10.549 04/13/2011 - 17:05 Portuguese
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 0 6.062 04/13/2011 - 17:03 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : You Felons on Trial in Courts 0 9.063 04/13/2011 - 17:01 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Yonnondio 0 6.259 04/13/2011 - 17:00 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours 0 6.192 04/13/2011 - 16:59 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Years of the Modern 0 5.815 04/13/2011 - 16:59 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Year of Meteors [1859-60] 0 6.414 04/13/2011 - 16:57 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : The Wound-Dresser 0 7.464 04/13/2011 - 16:56 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : The World Below the Brine 0 6.411 04/13/2011 - 16:55 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : A Woman Waits for Me 0 6.617 04/13/2011 - 16:53 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 0 8.260 04/13/2011 - 16:52 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : With Antecedents 0 8.193 04/13/2011 - 16:51 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 0 7.009 04/13/2011 - 16:50 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 0 6.254 04/13/2011 - 16:48 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Whispers of Heavenly Death 0 5.350 04/13/2011 - 16:47 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When the Full-Grown Poet Came 0 7.530 04/13/2011 - 16:46 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 0 6.838 04/13/2011 - 16:45 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Read the Book 0 5.859 04/13/2011 - 16:43 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 0 8.497 04/13/2011 - 16:42 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 0 12.364 04/13/2011 - 16:41 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Heard at the Close of the Day 0 6.890 04/13/2011 - 16:40 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 0 6.303 04/13/2011 - 16:38 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : What Ship Puzzled at Sea 0 10.295 04/13/2011 - 16:37 English