As i ponder'd in silence --
In cabin'd ships at sea --
Starting from Paumanok --
From pent-up aching rivers --
I sing the body electric --
As I lay with head in your lap, camerado --
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry --
Now list to my morning's romanza.
I hear America singing --
There was a chld went forth --
As I sat alone by blue Ontario's shores --
Proud music of the storm --
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd --
O captain! My captain! --
A noiseless patient spider --
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking --
A carol of harvest for 1867 --
Sparkles from the wheel --
As a strong bird on pinions free ; Essays: Observations on Walt Whitman / T.S. Eliot