Quote
By Walt Whitman
I loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
- Source
- Leaves of Grass (first edition), 1855 · p. 13 (the first page of the poem; it has no printed number)
- Read at
- Internet Archive (Walt Whitman Archive copy of the 1855 first edition, Brooklyn, New York, scanned by Google Books)
Share this quote
About this quote
From the first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (Brooklyn, New York, 1855). The poem that became "Song of Myself" had no title in 1855, and the 1855 text differs from later editions. Verse lines are separated by a slash (/).