One's-Self I Sing

One's-Self I Sing

Original Text
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-92): 9. PS 3201 1891 Robarts Library.
1One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,
2Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
3Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
5The Female equally with the Male I sing.
6Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
7Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
8The Modern Man I sing.

Notes

4] physiognomy: the study of how to derive character from facial features. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1867
Publication Notes
(as "Inscription")
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
Rhyme
unrhyming