Drum Taps Quotes

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”
― Walt Whitman, Drum Taps

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”
― Walt Whitman, Drum Taps

“Lo, ’tis autumn; Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder, Cool and sweeten Ohio’s villages, with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind; Where apples ripe in the orchards hang, and grapes on the trellis’d vines;* (Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines? Smell you the buckwheat, where the bees were lately buzzing?)*”
― Walt Whitman, Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition

“Enough - the Centenarian’s story ends;

The two, past and present, have interchanged;

I myself, as connector, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.”
― Walt Whitman, Drum-Taps