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Best Poems by Walt Whitman (505)

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O Captain! My Captain! · 1867 · 72 ♥

A Noiseless Patient Spider · 1881-1882 · 67 ♥

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days · 1881-1882 · 57 ♥

On the Beach at Night Alone · 1881-1882 · 54 ♥

I Hear America Singing · 1867 · 45 ♥

A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine · 1891-1892 · 43 ♥

Poem of The Poet · 1856 · 43 ♥

A Paumanok Picture · 1891-1892 · 42 ♥

Poem of The Dead Young Men of Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States · 1856 · 42 ♥

Poem of a Few Greatnesses · 1856 · 42 ♥

By That Long Scan of Waves · 1891-1892 · 41 ♥

Now FinalÈ to the Shore · 1881-1882 · 40 ♥

Others May Praise What They Like · 1867 · 40 ♥

To Workingmen · 1867 · 40 ♥

Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours · 1881-1882 · 39 ♥

With All Thy Gifts · 1881-1882 · 39 ♥

Small the Theme of My Chant · 1891-1892 · 39 ♥

Song of the Redwood-Tree · 1891-1892 · 39 ♥

To a Foil'd Revolter or Revoltress · 1867 · 39 ♥

Poem of You, Whoever You Are · 1856 · 39 ♥

The Torch · 1865 · 38 ♥

Flag of Stars, Thick-Sprinkled Bunting · 1867 · 38 ♥

Thought · 1871 · 38 ♥

That Shadow, my Likeness · 1871 · 38 ♥

Bunch Poem · 1856 · 38 ♥

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