Walt Whitman Poems : Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
Who learns my lesson complete?
Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman and atheist,
The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant,
clerk, porter and customer,
Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy--draw nigh and commence;
It is no lesson--it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
And that to another, and every one to another still.
The great laws take and effuse without argument,
I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons
of things,
They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
I cannot say to any person what I hear--I cannot say it to myself--
it is very wonderful.
It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so
exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or
the untruth of a single second,
I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years,
nor ten billions of years,
Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans
and builds a house.
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal;
I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and
how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple of
summers and winters to articulate and walk--all this is
equally wonderful.
And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other
without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see
each other, is every bit as wonderful.
And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to
be true, is just as wonderful.
And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth, is
equally wonderful,
And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally
wonderful.
Submited by
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 17:50
Poesia Consagrada :
- Login to post comments
- 8573 reads
other contents of Walt Whitman
Topic | Title | Replies | Views |
Last Post![]() |
Language | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - How Solemn As One by One [Washington, 1865] | 0 | 6.182 | 04/09/2011 - 15:50 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - A Hand-Mirror | 0 | 4.836 | 04/09/2011 - 15:49 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Halcyon Days | 0 | 2.798 | 04/09/2011 - 15:47 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Had I the Choice | 0 | 2.238 | 04/09/2011 - 15:45 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Grand Is the Seen | 0 | 3.199 | 04/09/2011 - 15:43 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Good-Bye My Fancy! | 0 | 3.631 | 04/09/2011 - 15:42 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - "Going Somewhere" | 0 | 4.967 | 04/09/2011 - 15:42 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Gods | 0 | 4.251 | 04/09/2011 - 15:40 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - A Glimpse | 0 | 4.604 | 04/09/2011 - 15:39 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun | 0 | 2.660 | 04/09/2011 - 15:38 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Germs | 0 | 3.523 | 04/09/2011 - 15:36 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Full of Life Now | 0 | 3.291 | 04/09/2011 - 15:35 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - From Pent-Up Aching Rivers | 0 | 3.285 | 04/09/2011 - 15:34 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird | 0 | 5.569 | 04/09/2011 - 15:33 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876] | 0 | 4.331 | 04/09/2011 - 15:31 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - France [the 18th Year of these States] | 0 | 3.788 | 04/09/2011 - 15:30 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - For You, O Democracy | 0 | 4.563 | 04/09/2011 - 15:29 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - First O Songs for a Prelude | 0 | 3.835 | 04/09/2011 - 15:28 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Facing West from California's Shores | 0 | 4.268 | 04/09/2011 - 15:27 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Faces | 0 | 5.291 | 04/09/2011 - 15:26 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Excelsior | 0 | 5.165 | 04/09/2011 - 15:24 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Europe [The 72nd and 73rd Years of These States] | 0 | 6.661 | 04/09/2011 - 15:22 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Ethiopia Saluting the Colors | 0 | 6.032 | 04/09/2011 - 15:21 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Election Day, November, 1884 | 0 | 2.978 | 04/09/2011 - 15:20 | English | |
Poesia Consagrada/General | Walt Whitman - Eighteen Sixty-One | 0 | 3.880 | 04/09/2011 - 15:19 | English |
Add comment