Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd RoadsSmall, Maynard, 1899 - 455 pages |
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... and a longer and greater one than any , Waged in my book with varying fortune , with flight , advance and retreat , victory deferr'd and wavering , ( Yet methinks certain , or as good as certain INSCRIPTIONS SING PONDER'D IN SILENCE.
... and a longer and greater one than any , Waged in my book with varying fortune , with flight , advance and retreat , victory deferr'd and wavering , ( Yet methinks certain , or as good as certain INSCRIPTIONS SING PONDER'D IN SILENCE.
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... advance in this book . ) Thou orb of many orbs ! Thou seething principle ! thou well - kept , latent germ ! thou centre ! Around the idea of thee the war revolving , With all its angry and vehement play of causes , ( With vast results ...
... advance in this book . ) Thou orb of many orbs ! Thou seething principle ! thou well - kept , latent germ ! thou centre ! Around the idea of thee the war revolving , With all its angry and vehement play of causes , ( With vast results ...
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... advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness . I am a man who , sauntering along without fully stopping , turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face , Leaving it to you to prove and define it , Expecting the ...
... advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness . I am a man who , sauntering along without fully stopping , turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face , Leaving it to you to prove and define it , Expecting the ...
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... advance from the people in their own spirit , Here is what sings unrestricted faith . Omnes ! omnes ! let others ignore what they may , I make the poem of evil also , I commemorate that part also , I am myself just as much evil as good ...
... advance from the people in their own spirit , Here is what sings unrestricted faith . Omnes ! omnes ! let others ignore what they may , I make the poem of evil also , I commemorate that part also , I am myself just as much evil as good ...
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... advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores , See , pastures and forests in my poems - - see , animals wild and tame - see , beyond the Kaw , countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass , See , in my poems ...
... advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores , See , pastures and forests in my poems - - see , animals wild and tame - see , beyond the Kaw , countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass , See , in my poems ...
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