Nature

Paumanok

by Walt Whitman 1819–1892

From Leaves of Grass

Nature

Sea-beauty! stretch’d and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce,
steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic’s wind caressing, fierce or gentle--mighty hulls
dark-gliding in the distance.
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water--healthy air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

MLA

Whitman, Walt. “Paumanok.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/290/.

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Whitman, Walt. “Paumanok.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/290/.

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