Not Heat Flames Up And Consumes

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)




   NOT heat flames up and consumes,
   Not sea-waves hurry in and out,
   Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears
         lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
   Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may;
   Not these--O none of these, more than the flames of me, consuming,
         burning for his love whom I love!
   O none, more than I, hurrying in and out:
   --Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the
         same;
   O nor down-balls, nor perfumes, nor the high, rain-emitting clouds,
         are borne through the open air,
   Any more than my Soul is borne through the open air,
   Wafted in all directions, O love, for friendship, for you.         10

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGBHIJKKL
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 736
Words 123
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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