Arts & Sciences
To Rich Givers
From Leaves of Grass
Arts & Sciences
What you give me I cheerfully accept,
A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I
rendezvous with my poems,
A traveler’s lodging and breakfast as journey through the States,--
why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of
the universe.
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “To Rich Givers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/123/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “To Rich Givers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/123/.
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