Earth, My Likeness

Name: Leaves of Grass - Earth, My Likeness
Author: Walt Whitman

EARTH, my likeness,

Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,

I now suspect that is not all;

I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst

forth,

For an athlete is enamour’d of me, and I of him,

But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible

to burst forth,

I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.

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Chicago: Walt Whitman, "Earth, My Likeness," Leaves of Grass Original Sources, accessed March 27, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=52T73YPQ4FTISSZ.

MLA: Whitman, Walt. "Earth, My Likeness." Leaves of Grass, Original Sources. 27 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=52T73YPQ4FTISSZ.

Harvard: Whitman, W, 'Earth, My Likeness' in Leaves of Grass. Original Sources, retrieved 27 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=52T73YPQ4FTISSZ.