Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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A Woman Waits for Me

 A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
 Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the
 right man were lacking.
 
 Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
 Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
 Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
 All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves,
 beauties, delights of the earth,
 All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth,
 These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
 
 Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
 Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
 
 Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
 I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that
 are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,
 I see that they understand me and do not deny me,
 I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of
 those women.
 
 They are not one jot less than I am,
 They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and blowing winds,
 Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
 They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike,
 retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
 They are ultimate in their own right--they are calm, clear,
 well-possess'd (...)
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