The Poetry Corner

Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love

By Walt Whitman

Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love! O woman I love! O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you! Then separate, as disembodied, or another born, Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation; I ascend--I float in the regions of your love, O man, O sharer of my roving life.