Nature
Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
From Leaves of Grass
Nature
Year that trembled and reel’d beneath me!
Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,
A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken’d me,
Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
And sullen hymns of defeat?
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/160/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/160/.
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