by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
I sing the Body electric
Language: English
I sing the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves; And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? And if the body does not do as much as the Soul? And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?
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Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in I Sing the Body Electric, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Andrew Hudson , "I sing the body electric", from Three Poems Of Walt Whitman, no. 3. [text not verified]
- by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "I sing the Body electric", op. 103 no. 7, published 1967 [chorus and woodwinds], from Celebrations: Cantata no. 3, no. 7. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-11
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Word count: 96