object:1.whitman - Had I the Choice
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
Homer with all his wars and warriorsHector, Achilles, Ajax,
Or Shakespeare's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, OthelloTennyson's fair ladies,
Meter or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
And leave its odor there.
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