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In Newly-Discovered Manifesto, Walt Whitman Says You Should Eat Leaves Of Grass

Forbes Apr 29, 2016 Shelby Carpenter , Forbes Staff Walt Whitman was a man wise beyond h…
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January 12, 2017

Volvo commercial features Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road

Volvo's breathtaking S90 commercial features Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road. The Wal…
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December 29, 2016

Rare Walt Whitman letter, written for a dying soldier, found in National Archives

The Washington Post story also found here. Rare Walt Whitman letter, written for a dying …
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November 28, 2016

At Midnight by Sara Teasdale

Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun…
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October 20, 2016

Past and Future by Elizabeth Browning

My future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done, Supernal Wil…
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October 20, 2016

Change Upon Change by Elizabeth Browning

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October 20, 2016

On a Foreign War Ship’s Salute to the Queen’s Standard at Osborne by John Campbell

    With their deep voice, monotonous and slow,     The cann…
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October 20, 2016

Norse Lullaby by Eugene Field

    The sky is dark and the hills are white     As the storm…
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October 20, 2016

Fortune and the Boy by Jean de La Fontaine

     Beside a well, uncurb'd and deep,      A scho…
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October 20, 2016
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