Author: Walt Whitman
Title: Leaves of Grass
Original publication date: 1855
Book awards: Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times (2009),
Epigraph: Come, said my Soul,Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,There to some group of mates the chants resuming,(Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on,E
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