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:

    “Ah, Faustus,
    Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
    And then thou must be damned perpetually!
    Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
    That time may cease and midnight never come!
    Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again and make
    Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
    A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
    That Faustus may repent and save his soul!”
    —Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

    “People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”
    —John Cheever (1912–1982)

    “I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)