This post presents three new verse translations of Walt Whitman’s lyric poem “This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful” (1860), from Leaves of Grass — Calamus, rendered into Italian, Spanish, and French. Each translation, curated by Enzo Martinelli, attends closely to Whitman’s elegiac tone and his meditation on distant peoples and shared humanity, offering readers a comparative view of the poem across three Romance languages.