First titled "A Word Out of the Sea" and "A Child's Reminiscence," FTP name this Walt Whitman poem beginning with the boy-poet getting up from bed.
This work includes a memory of "four light-green eggs speckled with brown."  A missing mate inspires the song of a creature addressed as the poet's "dusky demon and brother," and at the end of this poem the sea whispers to the poet "the low and delicious word death, and again death, death, death, death."  This poem features a he-bird addressed as "the solitary guest from Alabama," who visits the gray beach of Paumanok.  First titled "A Word Out of the Sea" and "A Child's Reminiscence," FTP name this Walt Whitman poem beginning with the boy-poet getting up from bed.
This work includes a memory of "four light-green eggs speckled with brown."  
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"