History & Politics
Delicate Cluster
From Leaves of Grass
History & Politics
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!
Covering all my lands--all my seashores lining!
Flag of death! (how I watch’d you through the smoke of battle pressing!
How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)
Flag cerulean--sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled!
Ah my silvery beauty--ah my woolly white and crimson!
Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
My sacred one, my mother.
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “Delicate Cluster.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/177/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “Delicate Cluster.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/177/.
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