The Untold Want

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)



THE untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
   Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Scheme AB
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 107
Words 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2

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  • LionLady
    We each have a path in life that we seek and tread on hoping we come to what drew us to it. We find obstacles along the way - life bring the biggest of them all, but we continue and though we fall several times we lift ourselves up out of pure need as we walk that path again only this time we wear s better pair of shoes than we wore before . 
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