My Picture-Gallery


  In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
  It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
  Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories!
  Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death;
  Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
  With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.
by Walt Whitman
Written around 1891. 49 reads.