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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 4. To Foreign Lands


I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted. 



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 24. The Commonplace
  2. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 10. Queries to My Seventieth Year
  3. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. Fancies at Navesink. 6. Proudly the Flood Comes In
  4. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 14. Memories
  5. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 30. Unseen Buds


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