Beginning My Studies
1819-1892
Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much,
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much,
I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
DayPoems Poem No. 1884
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1884.html">Beginning My Studies by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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