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Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (EBook, Grapevine) No rating

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Although …

I Hear It Was Charged Against Me by Walt Whitman

I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions, But really I am neither for nor against institutions, (What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?) Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard, And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water, Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument, The institution of the dear love of comrades.

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