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[For the Saturday Press.]
ing a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
How often I find myself standing and looking at it
where it flits,
How often I question and doubt whether that is really
me;
But in these, and among my lovers, and carolling my
songs,
O I never doubt whether that is really me.
WALT WHITMAN.
Poemet.
That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek-ing a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
How often I find myself standing and looking at it
where it flits,
How often I question and doubt whether that is really
me;
But in these, and among my lovers, and carolling my
songs,
O I never doubt whether that is really me.
WALT WHITMAN.
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Publication Information
"Poemet [That shadow, my likeness]."
New-York Saturday Press
4 February 1860:
2.
This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My Likeness," Leaves of Grass (1867); and, with slight changes in the text, in Leaves of Grass (1881–82).
Whitman Archive ID
per.00074