Poem - "Earth! my Likeness!" by Walt Whitman

"Earth! my Likeness!" 
by Walt Whitman



EARTH! my likeness!

Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
I now suspect that is not all;
I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth;
For an athlete is enamour’d of me—and I of him;
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.