Poem - "What am I, After All?" by Walt Whitman

"What am I, After All?" 
by Walt Whitman



WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating

it
over and over;
I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.

To you, your name also;

Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?