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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Page 28
... sleep no more but arise , You oceans that have been calm within me ! how I feel you , fathom- less , stirring , preparing unprecedented waves and storms . 18 See , steamers steaming through my poems , See , in my poems immigrants ...
... sleep no more but arise , You oceans that have been calm within me ! how I feel you , fathom- less , stirring , preparing unprecedented waves and storms . 18 See , steamers steaming through my poems , See , in my poems immigrants ...
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... sleeps at my side through the night , and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread , Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty , Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and ...
... sleeps at my side through the night , and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread , Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty , Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and ...
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... to me , nor stale nor discarded , I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no , And am around , tenacious , acquisitive , tireless , and cannot be shaken away . 8 The little one sleeps in its cradle , I 34 LEAVES OF Grass .
... to me , nor stale nor discarded , I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no , And am around , tenacious , acquisitive , tireless , and cannot be shaken away . 8 The little one sleeps in its cradle , I 34 LEAVES OF Grass .
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... sleeps in its cradle , I lift the gauze and look a long time , and silently brush away flies with my hand . The youngster and the red - faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill , I peeringly view them from the top . The suicide sprawls ...
... sleeps in its cradle , I lift the gauze and look a long time , and silently brush away flies with my hand . The youngster and the red - faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill , I peeringly view them from the top . The suicide sprawls ...
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... sleep with them week in and week out . > What is commonest , cheapest , nearest , easiest , is Me , Me going in for my chances , spending for vast returns , Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me , Not asking ...
... sleep with them week in and week out . > What is commonest , cheapest , nearest , easiest , is Me , Me going in for my chances , spending for vast returns , Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me , Not asking ...
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