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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 5. Calamus. 20. I Hear It Was Charged Against Me


I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,
But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
(What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the
      destruction of them?)
Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these
      States inland and seaboard,
And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large
      that dents the water,
Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument,
The institution of the dear love of comrades.



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 21. Drum-Taps. 35. How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
  2. Leaves of Grass. 30. Whispers of Heavenly Death. 5. Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
  3. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 7. The Pallid Wreath
  4. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 9. Excelsior
  5. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 11. The Wallabout Martyrs


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