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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

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

• Salvatore Quasimodo



Poems of the Day
  • Jane Kenyon
    Having it Out with Melancholy
    by Jane Kenyon
    1FROM THE NURSERY When I was born, you waited behind a pile of linen in the nursery, and when we were alone, you lay down on top of me, pressing the bile of desolation into every pore.