With All Thy Gifts

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



WITH all thy gifts, America,
   (Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,)
   Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee--With these, and like of
         these, vouchsafed to thee,
   What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never
         solving;)
   The gift of Perfect Women fit for thee--What of that gift of gifts
         thou lackest?
   The towering Feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit
         for thee?
   The Mothers fit for thee?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 492
Words 74
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

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