The Selected Short Poems of Walt Whitman presents the best short poems by America's greatest poet. Unlike other editions of Whitman's poetry, we print the earliest and most powerful version of each poem, drawing from each edition of Leaves of Grass that Whitman published between 1855 and 1892. Walt Whitman was born in 1819 on Long Island. His early life was devoted to journalism, and throughout the 1840s he contributed fiction,...
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