In a preface, this poet claimed that "your very flesh shall be a great poem" if you "love the earth and the sun and the animals." He compared his soul standing "in measureless oceans of space" to a creature that "launch'd for
In a preface, this poet claimed that "your very flesh shall be a great poem" if you "love the earth and the sun and the animals." He compared his soul standing "in measureless oceans of space" to a creature that "launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself." This poet mourned "with ever-returning spring" a "great (*) star" that "early drooped." He wrote that "our fearful trip is done" and mourned a man "fallen cold and dead" in a memorial for Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points, name this American poet who collected "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!" in Leaves of Grass.
In a preface, this poet claimed that "your very flesh shall be a great poem" if you "love the earth and the sun and the animals."
Walt Whitman​ [Walter Whitman]