To Rich Givers

Name: Leaves of Grass - To Rich Givers
Author: Walt Whitman

WHAT you give me I cheerfully accept,

A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I

rendezvous with my poems,

A traveler’s lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,-

why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise

for them?

For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,

For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of

the universe.

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Chicago: Walt Whitman, "To Rich Givers," Leaves of Grass Original Sources, accessed July 8, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1RPMD9AUS1U5W7.

MLA: Whitman, Walt. "To Rich Givers." Leaves of Grass, Original Sources. 8 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1RPMD9AUS1U5W7.

Harvard: Whitman, W, 'To Rich Givers' in Leaves of Grass. Original Sources, retrieved 8 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1RPMD9AUS1U5W7.