History & Politics

We Two Boys Together Clinging

by Walt Whitman 1819–1892

From Leaves of Grass

History & Politics

We two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm’d and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.

MLA

Whitman, Walt. “We Two Boys Together Clinging.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/64/.

Chicago

Whitman, Walt. “We Two Boys Together Clinging.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/64/.

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