![]() ![]() Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island and raised in New York, working as a journalist for a number of newspapers before leaving the state to travel the country. “O Me! O Life!” was published in Whitman’s collection Leaves of Grass in 1891. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. That you are here-that life exists and identity, The question, O me! so sad, recurring-What good amid these, O me, O life? Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me, Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, ![]()
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