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Public-domain poetry · from the anthology

Full of Life, Now.

by Walt Whitman

19th-Century American · Short · 8 lines

FULL of life, now, compact, visible, I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States, To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence, To you, yet unborn, these, seeking you. When you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible; Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me; Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your comrade; Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)

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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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