∗america sings through one man's infinite body

One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democrat…

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,…

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spea…

Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what t…

∗Walt Whitman's revolutionary collection of autobiographical free verse poems, first published in 1855 and expanded throughout his lifetime, celebrates democracy, individualism, and the human body with sensual intensity.

Whitman's democratic epic of American life, self, and nature in revolutionary free verse.