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To Foreign Lands.

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

I HEARD that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy;
Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you wanted.




Quotes of the Day

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
• Honore de Balzac


Poems of the Day
  • Vachel Lindsay
    On the Road to Nowhere
    by Vachel Lindsay
    On the road to nowhere What wild oats did you sow When you left your father's house With your cheeks aglow? Eyes so strained and eager To see what you might see? Were you thief or were you fool