English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Walt Whitman
813. Ones-Self I Sing
O
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse
—I say the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.