Those corpses of young men,
those martyrs that hang from the gibbets
those hearts pierced by grey lead,
cold and motionless as they seem, live
elsewhere with unslaughtered vitality.
...
they live in other young men, O kings!
they live in brothers, again ready to defy you!
poem by
Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist and humanist, Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
those martyrs that hang from the gibbets
those hearts pierced by grey lead,
cold and motionless as they seem, live
elsewhere with unslaughtered vitality.
...
they live in other young men, O kings!
they live in brothers, again ready to defy you!
poem by
Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist and humanist, Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
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