• Myself
    i celebrate myself, and sing myself,
    And what I assume you shall assume,
    For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
    I loaf and invite my soul,
    I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

    My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air,
    Born here of parents born here from parents the...

  • From “The Song of Myself”
    I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
    And what I assume you shall assume,
    For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
    I loaf and invite my soul,
    I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

    My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air,
    Born here of parents born...