Interlude - walt whitman poetry

I needed a quick break today so I decided to find something online to read. It had to be short and it had to be striking. Poetry (well, good poetry) fits the bill and this is what I ended up with A Woman Waits For Me by Walt Whitman

I particularly liked these lines:

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,
The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, 35
The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,