English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 813. One’s-Self I Sing |
| | | Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
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| ONE’S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person, | |
| Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. | |
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| Of physiology from top to toe I sing, | |
| Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse | |
| —I say the Form complete is worthier far, | 5 |
| The Female equally with the Male I sing. | |
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| Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, | |
| Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine, | |
| The Modern Man I sing. | |
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