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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... blood , form'd from this soil , this air , Born here of parents born here from parents the same , and their parents the same , I , now thirty - seven years old in perfect health begin , Hoping to cease not till death . Creeds and ...
... blood , form'd from this soil , this air , Born here of parents born here from parents the same , and their parents the same , I , now thirty - seven years old in perfect health begin , Hoping to cease not till death . Creeds and ...
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... blood and air through my lungs , ✓ The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves , and of the shore and dark - color'd sea - rocks , and of hay in the barn , The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind , A ...
... blood and air through my lungs , ✓ The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves , and of the shore and dark - color'd sea - rocks , and of hay in the barn , The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind , A ...
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... blood ! your milky stream pale strippings of my life ! Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you ! My brain it shall be your occult convolutions ! Root of wash'd sweet - flag ! timorous pond - snipe ! nest of guarded ...
... blood ! your milky stream pale strippings of my life ! Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you ! My brain it shall be your occult convolutions ! Root of wash'd sweet - flag ! timorous pond - snipe ! nest of guarded ...
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... blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself , On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs , Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip , Behaving licentious toward me , taking no denial ...
... blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself , On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs , Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip , Behaving licentious toward me , taking no denial ...
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... blood of four hundred and twelve young men . Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks , Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemies , nine times their number , was the price they took in ...
... blood of four hundred and twelve young men . Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks , Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemies , nine times their number , was the price they took in ...
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