Walt Whitman

(1819-1892)
American Poet of Long Island ~

Thou Reader

"Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
Therefore for thee the following chants."

Walt Whitman from "Leaves of Grass."

Here the Frailest Leaves of Me

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting,
Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.

- Walt Whitman

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