T.L. Morrisey

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Showing posts with label Walt Whitman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walt Whitman. Show all posts
Friday, August 15, 2025

"This is what you shall do", Walt Whitman

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  Walt Whitman “This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand u...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

How to write a poem, and reading poems

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  29 May 2014 While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed, As to long panoramas of visions.              --Walt Whitman,   "When ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Biographies of Poets, Whitman and Smith

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Mickle Street  One of my favourite biographies of Whitman is Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (1921) by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller de...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

"Poem of the Daily Work of The Workmen and Workwomen of These States" by Walt Whitman

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  The men who constructed the Victoria bridge         This is the poem of occupations; In the labor of engines and trades, and the labor of...
Monday, October 24, 2022

"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman

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  A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It...
Monday, July 26, 2021

The cottage garden is all for peaceful co-existence

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There is peaceful co-existence among most animals but when a human approaches they all run for their lives. One of my favourite poems is by ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Living with Animals

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Last spring when I began working in the garden I wondered why birds and squirrels were afraid of me but not afraid of each other. Then I th...