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A GLIMPSE by WALT WHITMAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: A GLIMPSE, THROUGH AN INTERSTICE CAUGHT
Last Line: LITTLE, PERHAPS NOT A WORD.
Subject(s): GAYS & LESBIANS; MEN; HOMOEROTICISM; LESBIANS; GAY WOMEN; GAY MEN;

A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the
stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated
in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently
approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold
me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises coming and going, of drinking
and oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking
little, perhaps not a word.



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