The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman

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СКАЧАТЬ . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.

      For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,

      It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,

       They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations.

      The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,

       Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

      Great is goodness;

       I do not know what it is any more than I know what health is . . . . but I know it is great.

      Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:

       Do you call that a paradox? It certainly is a paradox.

      The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,

       And there is another paradox.

      Great is life . . and real and mystical . . wherever and whoever,

       Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;

       Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

      Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition)

       Table of Contents

       LEAVES OF GRASS

       BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS

       One’s-Self I Sing

       As I Ponder’d in Silence

       In Cabin’d Ships at Sea

       To Foreign Lands

       To a Historian

       To Thee Old Cause

       Eidolons

       For Him I Sing

       When I Read the Book

       Beginning My Studies

       Beginners

       To the States

       On Journeys Through the States

       To a Certain Cantatrice

       Me Imperturbe

       Savantism

       The Ship Starting

       I Hear America Singing

       What Place Is Besieged?

       Still Though the One I Sing

       Shut Not Your Doors

       Poets to Come

       To You

       Thou Reader

       BOOK II

       Starting from Paumanok

       BOOK III

       Song of Myself

       BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM

       To the Garden the World

       From Pent-Up Aching Rivers

       I Sing the Body Electric

       A Woman Waits for Me

       Spontaneous Me

       One Hour to Madness and Joy

       Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd

       Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals

       We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d

       O Hymen! O Hymenee!

       I Am He That Aches with Love

       Native Moments

       Once I Pass’d Through СКАЧАТЬ