Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats!
Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me!
(For what is my life, or any man's life, but a conflict with foes--
the old, the incessant war?)
You degradations--you tussle with passions and appetites;
You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds, the sharpest of
all;)
You toil of painful and choked articulations--you meannesses;
You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of
any;)
You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis;
Ah, think not you finally triumph--My real self has yet to come
forth;
It shall yet march forth o'ermastering, till all lies beneath me; 10
It shall yet stand up the soldier of unquestion'd victory.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 783 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
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