To Walt Whitman, The Man [Poem]

James SchminckeUncategorized

— John James Piatt Washington, May, MDCCCLXIII Homeward, last midnight, in the car we met, While the long street streamed by us in the dark With scattered lights in blurs of misty rain; Then, while you spoke to me of hospitals That know your visits, and of wounded men (From those dread battles yonder in the South) Who keep the …