Updated September 23, 2019 | Infoplease Staff Here the Frailest Leaves of MeHere the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems. Walt Whitman: A Promise to California Walt Whitman: Calamus Walt Whitman: No Labor-Saving Machine .com/t/lit/leaves-of-grass/ch05s25.html Sources Our Common Sources