Walt Whitman Poems : Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours
Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also,
Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles,
Earth to a chamber of mourning turns--I hear the o'erweening, mocking
voice,
Matter is conqueror--matter, triumphant only, continues onward.
Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me,
The call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarm'd, uncertain,
The sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,
Come tell me where I am speeding, tell me my destination.
I understand your anguish, but I cannot help you,
I approach, hear, behold, the sad mouth, the look out of the eyes,
your mute inquiry,
Whither I go from the bed I recline on, come tell me,--
Old age, alarm'd, uncertain--a young woman's voice, appealing to
me for comfort;
A young man's voice, Shall I not escape?
Submited by
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 17:59
Poesia Consagrada :
- Login to post comments
- 4541 reads
other contents of Walt Whitman
Topic | Title | Replies | Views |
Last Post![]() |
Language | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman Poems : Pensive and Faltering | 0 | 1.853 | 04/11/2011 - 00:51 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman Poems : A Paumanok Picture | 0 | 1.472 | 04/11/2011 - 00:50 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman Poems : Patroling Barnegat | 0 | 1.661 | 04/11/2011 - 00:48 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman Poems : Passage to India | 0 | 2.288 | 04/11/2011 - 00:47 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - The Pallid Wreath | 0 | 1.523 | 04/11/2011 - 00:43 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - The Ox-Tamer | 0 | 940 | 04/11/2011 - 00:38 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice | 0 | 1.345 | 04/11/2011 - 00:37 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | 0 | 1.783 | 04/11/2011 - 00:36 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | 0 | 2.132 | 04/11/2011 - 00:35 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] | 0 | 2.708 | 04/11/2011 - 00:32 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] | 0 | 1.581 | 04/11/2011 - 00:31 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Our Old Feuillage | 0 | 2.238 | 04/11/2011 - 00:28 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - O Star of France [1870-71] | 0 | 1.226 | 04/11/2011 - 00:25 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Osceola | 0 | 2.234 | 04/11/2011 - 00:22 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - On the Beach at Night Alone | 0 | 2.712 | 04/11/2011 - 00:21 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! | 0 | 1.479 | 04/11/2011 - 00:19 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - On Journeys Through the States | 0 | 1.360 | 04/11/2011 - 00:16 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - One Hour to Madness and Joy | 0 | 1.255 | 04/11/2011 - 00:15 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City | 0 | 1.679 | 04/11/2011 - 00:14 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - On the Beach at Night | 0 | 2.360 | 04/11/2011 - 00:12 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life! | 0 | 3.437 | 04/11/2011 - 00:11 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - O Magnet-South | 0 | 1.831 | 04/11/2011 - 00:09 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - An Old Man's Thought of School | 0 | 1.568 | 04/11/2011 - 00:07 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - O Living Always, Always Dying | 0 | 2.124 | 04/11/2011 - 00:05 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Old War-Dreams | 0 | 1.840 | 04/11/2011 - 00:03 | English |
Add comment