Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath’d hooded sharp-tooth’d touch!

That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,There to some group of mates the chants resuming,(Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultous waves,)Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep onEver and ever to the verses owning – as, first, I here and now,Signing for soul and body, set them to my…

That is nothing, that is quell’d by one or two failures, or anynumber of failures,Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by anyunfaithfulness,Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.Revolt! and still revolt! revolt!What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents,and all the islands and…

I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate?We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.Births have brought us richness and variety,And other births will bring us richness and variety.I do not call one…

I sleep—I sleep long.I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.Do you…

If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,This the common air that bathes the globe.