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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... 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 main things from you . TO YOU . STRANGER , if you ...
... 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 main things from you . TO YOU . STRANGER , if you ...
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... 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 few light kisses , a few embraces , a reaching around of arms , The play of shine and shade on the ...
... 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 few light kisses , a few embraces , a reaching around of arms , The play of shine and shade on the ...
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... dark to be from the white heads of old mothers , Darker than the colorless beards of old men , Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths . OI perceive after all so many uttering tongues , And I perceive they do not come from ...
... dark to be from the white heads of old mothers , Darker than the colorless beards of old men , Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths . OI perceive after all so many uttering tongues , And I perceive they do not come from ...
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... dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw , Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great - grand- sons around them , In walls of adobie , in canvas tents , rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport , The ...
... dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw , Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great - grand- sons around them , In walls of adobie , in canvas tents , rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport , The ...
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... their place , The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place , The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place . ) 17 These are really the thoughts of all men in 42 LEAVES OF Grass .
... their place , The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place , The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place . ) 17 These are really the thoughts of all men in 42 LEAVES OF Grass .
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