I Am He That Aches With Love
I AM he that aches with amorous love;
Does the earth gravitate
Does not all matter, aching, attract all matter
So the Body of me, to all I meet, or know
I AM he that aches with amorous love;
Does the earth gravitate
Does not all matter, aching, attract all matter
So the Body of me, to all I meet, or know
As I ponder'd in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,
A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful aspect,
Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
I
AR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions;
But really I am neither for nor against institutions;(What indeed have I in common with them
—Or what with the destruction of them
RE you the new person drawn toward me
To begin with, take warning—I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover
I
IT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by...
Come, said my soul,
Such verses for my body let us write, (For we are One),
That should I after death invisibly return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
VE moments
when you come upon me—Ah you are here now
Give me nowlibidinous joys only
Give me the drench of my passions
A
AN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking,
Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking
Sex contains all,
Good-bye my Fancy
Farewell dear mate, dear love
I'm going away,
I know not where,
NG west, from California's shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,
Look off the shores of my Western Sea—the circ...
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
NG the men and women, the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am;
Some are baffled—But that one is not—that one kn...