Nature

I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ

by Walt Whitman 1819–1892

From Leaves of Grass

Nature

I heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I
pass’d the church,
Winds of autumn, as I walk’d the woods at dusk I heard your long-
stretch’d sighs up above so mournful,
I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the
soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the
wrists around my head,
Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last
night under my ear.

MLA

Whitman, Walt. “I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/39/.

Chicago

Whitman, Walt. “I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/39/.

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