Walt Whitman's poems are old yet progressive; he was the pioneer back in the old days, of the new, I feel. His poems ring with the eternal, that which is the core of every human being, and that, about his poems, is what makes your heart flutter in your chest. His poems are fluid, naked and erotic. Flushing and beating.

Sometimes with One I Love

by Walt Whitman

Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I
effuse unreturn'd love,
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is
certain one way or another,
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not
return'd,
Yet out of that I have written these songs.)