object:1.whitman - I Sit And Look Out
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying,
neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husbandI see the treacherous seducer
of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be
hidI see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyrannyI see martyrs and
prisoners;
I observe a famine at seaI observe the sailors casting lots who
shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All theseAll the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look
out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.
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