Elizabeth S. Titus

Upper West Side/CPW

NPR podcast of show about Walt Whitman, his life in NYC at a pivotal time in history, his most famous poem, Song of Myself

Song of Myself

XXIV

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
No more modest than immodest.