by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
Ecstatic lyric that turns from ‘O woman I love’ to ‘O man, O sharer of my roving life’; comradely love, desire, the sea and the open road.
Connections
Motifs: Sea Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Comradeship, Lust Sexual Desire
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
Fast-anchor’d eternal O love! O woman I love!
O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
Then separate, as disembodied or another born,
Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man,
O sharer of my roving life.