by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
Address to a disciple (‘eleve’) warning that learning is useless without the blood and silent selection of lovers; comradeship, the body and discipleship.
Connections
Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Romantic Love, Body, Education
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
Many things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine; Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins, If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers, Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?