This poem describes a sort of person who, "whatever the survey, whatever the sea and sail" "strikessoundings at last only here."
This poem describes a sort of person who, "whatever the survey, whatever the sea and sail" "strikessoundings at last only here." An earlier section of this poem distinguishes love "by allowance" from love"with personal love," saying of "a common farmer -- the father of five sons" that "you would wish to sit byhim in the boat, that you and he might touch each other." The speaker of this poem wishes to "swim withthe swimmers, wrestle with the wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, pause, listen and count." Later, itdescribes the auction of the male and female forms, then launches into an exhaustive anatomical catalogue,concluding that these are "parts and poems" of the soul, and, indeed "these are the Soul!" This poem'sspeaker states that "the armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them." For 10 points, name thiscelebration of the physical human being, a poem by Walt Whitman.
This poem describes a sort of person who, "whatever the survey, whatever the sea and sail" "strikessoundings at last only here."
 "I Sing the Body Electric"