Walt Whitman Poems : To One Shortly to Die

From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,
You are to die--let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
I am exact and merciless, but I love you--there is no escape for you.

 

Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you 'ust feel it,
I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
I sit quietly by, I remain faithful,
I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,
I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is
eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.

 

The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions,
Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,
You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends,
I am with you,
I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated,
I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.

Submited by

Miércoles, Abril 13, 2011 - 00:02

Poesia Consagrada :

Promedio: 4 (2 votos)

Walt Whitman

Imagen de Walt Whitman
Desconectado
Título: Membro
Last seen: Hace 13 años 46 semanas
Integró: 04/08/2011
Posts:
Points: 849

Add comment

Inicie sesión para enviar comentarios

other contents of Walt Whitman

Tema Título Respuestas Lecturas Último envíoordenar por icono Idioma
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Pensive and Faltering 0 2.559 04/10/2011 - 23:51 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : A Paumanok Picture 0 2.313 04/10/2011 - 23:50 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Patroling Barnegat 0 2.902 04/10/2011 - 23:48 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Passage to India 0 3.305 04/10/2011 - 23:47 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - The Pallid Wreath 0 2.489 04/10/2011 - 23:43 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - The Ox-Tamer 0 1.966 04/10/2011 - 23:38 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice 0 3.392 04/10/2011 - 23:37 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 0 2.695 04/10/2011 - 23:36 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 0 3.471 04/10/2011 - 23:35 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870] 0 6.806 04/10/2011 - 23:32 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] 0 2.438 04/10/2011 - 23:31 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Our Old Feuillage 0 3.354 04/10/2011 - 23:28 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - O Star of France [1870-71] 0 2.353 04/10/2011 - 23:25 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Osceola 0 3.231 04/10/2011 - 23:22 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - On the Beach at Night Alone 0 3.488 04/10/2011 - 23:21 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! 0 2.546 04/10/2011 - 23:19 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - On Journeys Through the States 0 2.717 04/10/2011 - 23:16 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - One Hour to Madness and Joy 0 2.382 04/10/2011 - 23:15 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 0 2.658 04/10/2011 - 23:14 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - On the Beach at Night 0 3.570 04/10/2011 - 23:12 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life! 0 4.619 04/10/2011 - 23:11 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - O Magnet-South 0 3.013 04/10/2011 - 23:09 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - An Old Man's Thought of School 0 3.458 04/10/2011 - 23:07 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - O Living Always, Always Dying 0 3.284 04/10/2011 - 23:05 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman - Old War-Dreams 0 3.071 04/10/2011 - 23:03 Inglés