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Home: Poetry: Walt Whitman: Me Imperturbe
| ME IMPURTERBE |
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a poem by Walt Whitman
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- Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
- Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
- Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
- Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,
- Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,
- A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
- Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
- To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
| "Me Imperturbe" is reprinted from Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman. Brooklyn: Fowler & Wells, 1856. |
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