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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, on Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819. Considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, Walt Whitman celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang

Glimpse, A

by Walt Whitman (1819–92)

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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 of 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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Two poets of the British Isles are referred to simply as "The Bard." One is English, one is Scottish. Who are they?

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