meo-o-ow

Updated: July 9, 2026

I hear the woodpecker, and night and early morning the shuttle of the whip-poor-will noons, the gurgle of thrush delicious, and meo-o-ow of the cat-bird. Many I cannot name; but I do not very particularly seek information. I repeat it don't want to know too exactly, or the reasons why. My own notes have been written off-hand in the latitude of middle New Jersey.

Walt Whitman - Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy