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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... follow'd by many , inaugurate a religion , I descend into the arena , ( It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there , the win- ner's pealing shouts , Who knows ? they may rise from me yet , and soar above every thing ...
... follow'd by many , inaugurate a religion , I descend into the arena , ( It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there , the win- ner's pealing shouts , Who knows ? they may rise from me yet , and soar above every thing ...
Page 37
... follow their movements , The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms , Overhand the hammers swing , overhand so slow , overhand so sure , They do not hasten , each man hits in his place . WIZIRANOMALESPOON 13 The ...
... follow their movements , The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms , Overhand the hammers swing , overhand so slow , overhand so sure , They do not hasten , each man hits in his place . WIZIRANOMALESPOON 13 The ...
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... follow him , The child is baptized , the convert is making his first professions , The regatta is spread on the bay , the race is begun , ( how the white sails sparkle ! ) The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray ...
... follow him , The child is baptized , the convert is making his first professions , The regatta is spread on the bay , the race is begun , ( how the white sails sparkle ! ) The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray ...
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... follow quickly , I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff . 32 I think I could turn and live with animals , they are so placid and self - contain'd , I stand and look at them long and long . They do not sweat and whine about ...
... follow quickly , I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff . 32 I think I could turn and live with animals , they are so placid and self - contain'd , I stand and look at them long and long . They do not sweat and whine about ...
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... follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up , How he saved the drifting company at last , How the lank loose - gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves , How the silent old ...
... follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up , How he saved the drifting company at last , How the lank loose - gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves , How the silent old ...
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