Due to snowfall, all classes will be cancelled, and we will spend a four day weekend sharing poems with each other.
Fri- Mon.-Chedwick University Poetry Jam Session.
Excelsior by Walt Whitman
Who has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
And you has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth.
And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious.
And who has been happiest? O I think it is I
I think no one was ever happier than I,
And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,
And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive--
For I am the son of the brawny and tall topt city,
And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest
being of the universe,
And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
And who has receiv'd the love of most friends? for I know what it is
to receive the passionate love of many friends,
And who possesses a perfect and enamor'd body? for I do not believe
any one possesses a more perfect or enamor'd body than mine,
And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,
And who makes hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy
to make joyous hymns for the earth.
1 comments:
fantastic!!! Thank you so much, Whitman really called to me this year, and so great to find him here too. Thank you.
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