One Hour To Madness and Joy

"One Hour to Madness and Joy" is a poem by Walt Whitman.




Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
(1855–1892)
  • "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1855)
  • "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day" (1865)
  • "I Sing the Body Electric" (1865)
  • "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1891)
  • "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865)
  • "One Hour to Madness and Joy" (1860)
  • "One's Self I Sing" (1867)
  • "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859)
  • "Patrolling Barnegat" (1856)
  • "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865)
  • "Prayer of Columbus" (1900)
  • "Song of Myself" (1855)
  • "Song of the Open Road" (1856)
  • "This Dust Was Once the Man" (1871)
  • "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865)
Sections
Calamus
Sea-Drift
Drum-Taps
Other works
  • Franklin Evans (1842)
  • Democratic Vistas (1871)
Adaptations
  • Sea Drift (1906)
  • A Sea Symphony (1909)
  • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946)
  • The Wound-Dresser (1989)
  • Lilacs (1996)
Related
  • "Body Electric" (2012)
  • Steven van Leeuwen
Honoraria
  • Walt Whitman Award
  • Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site
  • Walt Whitman Bridge
  • Walt Whitman High School (Maryland)
  • Walt Whitman High School (New York)
  • Walt Whitman House
  • Walt Whitman Shops


Famous quotes containing the words hour, madness and/or joy:

    “Books are for the scholar’s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men’s transcripts of their readings.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.”
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)

    “Christ has called us to new visions
    Here to celebrate and praise,
    Here confess our old divisions,
    Here our peace petitions raise.
    Come repentant, come forgiving,
    Come in joy and hope and prayer.
    Christ, once crucified, now living,
    Bids us faith and love to share.”
    —Jane Parker Huber (b. 1926)