Relationships

Among the Multitude

by Walt Whitman 1819–1892

From Leaves of Grass

Relationships

Among the men and women the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child,
any nearer than I am,
Some are baffled, but that one is not--that one knows me.
Ah lover and perfect equal,
I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.

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Whitman, Walt. “Among the Multitude.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/77/.

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