Lyric Poem · War & Remembrance
Weave in, Weave in, My Hardy Life
by Walt Whitman
1WEAVE in! weave in, my hardy life!
2Weave yet a soldier strong and full, for great campaigns to come;
3Weave in red blood! weave sinews in, like ropes! the senses, sight weave in!
4Weave lasting sure! weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave! tire not!
5(We know not what the use, O life! nor know the aim, the end—nor really aught we
6 know;
7But know the work, the need goes on, and shall go on—the death-envelop’d march
8 of
9 peace as well as war goes on;)
10For great campaigns of peace the same, the wiry threads to weave;
11We know not why or what, yet weave, forever weave.
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- Weave in, Weave in, My Hardy Life
- Poet
- Walt Whitman
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- 11 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- War & Remembrance, Death & Loss
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- Walt Whitman1819–1892
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