Earth! my Likeness!
by Walt Whitman
182411Earth! my Likeness!Walt Whitman

EARTH! my likeness!
Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
I now suspect that is not all;
I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth;
For an athlete is enamour’d of me—and I of him;
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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