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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 30. Whispers of Heavenly Death. 18. Pensive and Faltering


Pensive and faltering,
The words the Dead I write,
For living are the Dead,
(Haply the only living, only real,
And I the apparition, I the spectre.)



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 12. Mediums
  2. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 16. From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876]
  3. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 11. Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
  4. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 24. Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
  5. Leaves of Grass. 21. Drum-Taps. 30. Race of Veterans


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