Best Poems by great poets : Some of the greatest famous poems by
your favourite poets . . . Sing of the Banner at Day-Break. by
Walt Whitman O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping,
flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind’s
voice and that of the drum, By the banner’s voice, and child’s
voice, and sea’s voice, and Low on the ground and high in the
air, On the ground where father and child stand, In the upward
air where their eyes turn, Where the banner at day-break is
flapping. Words! book-words! what are you? Words no more, for
hearken and see, My song is there in the open air—and I must
sing, With the banner and pennant a-flapping. I’ll weave the
chord and twine in, Man’s desire and babe’s desire—I’ll twine
them in, I’ll put in I’ll put the bayonet’s flashing point—I’ll
let bullets and slugs (As one carrying a symbol and menace, far
into the future, Crying with trumpet voice, Arouse and beware!
Beware and arouse!) I’ll pour the verse with streams of blood,
full of volition, full o