 | Cheltenham College - 1868 - 412 pages
...It is all beautiful, but everyone will find many favourite passages. This is mine — ' Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love— But praise ! O praise and praise For the sure reminding arms of cool enfolding death." How touching is his brotherly... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 pages
...Comrades in the night ; And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. 1 6. Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate round the world, serenely...curious ; And for love, sweet love — But praise ! 0 praise and praise, For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death. Dark Mother, always gliding... | |
 | 1927 - 426 pages
...could not last. George Sterling: The Man lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Walter Lewin - 1880 - 368 pages
...Death ! 0 the beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments for reasons. Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate round the world, serenely...Praised be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, for objects and knowledge curious; And for love, sweet love—but praise ! praise ! praise ! For the... | |
 | 1928 - 694 pages
...Last in the Door Yard Bloomed." "And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me." "Came lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death." So might one go on indefinitely choosing in the one book that Whitman has left us, "Leaves of Grass,"... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 pages
...the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still. The bird sang the ' Carol of Death.' Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and...sweet love — but praise ! praise ! praise ! For the sure-en winding arms of cool-enfolding death. The hearer stands rapt by the charm and holding as if... | |
 | 1887 - 882 pages
...death as well as the blessedness of life. He alone hails it lovingly as a friend : — " Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. " Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 pages
...as far as may be. Whitman welcomes it lovingly ; he sings of " heavenly death " : — " Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 268 pages
...as far as may be. Whitman welcomes it lovingly ; he sings of " heavenly death " : — " Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1891 - 92 pages
...all, the song of the bird translated and becoming the chant for death : A CHANT FOR DEATH. Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
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Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. 
