#WhitmanWednesday 🌾
To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast...
I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
High, high above the rest—
To all cut off before their time,
Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
Quench'd by an early death.
Walt Whitman
D-Day 🕯️
I think it the necessary thing — I almost pray for it — that each age should have its hero.
Walt Whitman
#haiku 🕊️
Spring cacophony
Mowers drown Mourning coos – we
Long for winter's hush
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Even though the world can try to crush you and put you down with facts, you break up through the concrete and say: Damn it all, I'm a blade of grass and I will survive!
Ray Bradbury
🎨James Gale Tyler (1855-1931) "Ship Under Moonlight"
✍️From Melville's John Marr and Other Sailors (1888). Melville published just twenty-five first edition copies, at his own expense, intended for family and friends. Later editions were not published until the 1920s, well after Melville's death.