Living
Life and Death
From Leaves of Grass
Living
The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,
Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.
By each successive age insoluble, pass’d on,
To ours to-day--and we pass on the same.
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “Life and Death.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/328/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “Life and Death.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/328/.
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