![]() Though his formal education ended with elementary school, Whitman was an educator at several points in his life. Walt Whitman is primarily known for a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass, which he completely revised at least five times during the course of his life and which appeared in print in at least three different editions. You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean īut I shall be good health to you nevertheless,įailing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged Įxcerpted from "Song of Myself," in Leaves of Grass. ![]() If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles. I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I depart as air-I shake my white locks at the runaway sun It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any, on the shadow’d wilds ![]() I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable ![]()
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