“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”ĥ. I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.”Ĥ. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,Īnd whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years, If no other in the world be aware I sit content,Īnd if each and all be aware I sit content. Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.” Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know, “Not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you. Like the work as a whole, “Song of Myself” underwent many revisions throughout the years before becoming the poem now considered one of the most influential pieces of American poetry.Ģ. Included in Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself” is written in Whitman’s usual free verse and simple language, appealing to a vast audience. Whitman spent much of his professional career creating and changing his work, resulting in vastly altered editions being printed. First published in 1855, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was a continuous labor.
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