Nature
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
From Leaves of Grass
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.
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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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