by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Ages and ages, returning at intervals
Language: English
Ages and ages, returning at intervals, Undestroy'd, wandering immortal, Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet, I, chanter of Adamic songs, Through the new garden, the West, the great cities calling, Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself, Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex, Offspring of my loins.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Ages and ages, returning at intervals" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johannes Schlaf (1862 - 1941) ; composed by Paul Hindemith.
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 54