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Thou Reader.

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
Therefore for thee the following chants.




Quotes of the Day

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
• Greek proverb


Poems of the Day
  • Sylvia Plath
    The Manor Garden
    by Sylvia Plath
    The fountains are dry and the roses over. Incense of death. Your day approaches. The pears fatten like little buddhas. A blue mist is dragging the lake. You move through the era of fishes,