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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... stands , The wood - cutter's song , the ploughboy's on his way in the morn- ing , or at noon intermission or at sundown , The delicious singing of the mother , or of the young wife at work , or of the girl sewing or washing , Each ...
... stands , The wood - cutter's song , the ploughboy's on his way in the morn- ing , or at noon intermission or at sundown , The delicious singing of the mother , or of the young wife at work , or of the girl sewing or washing , Each ...
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... stand in my place with my own day here . Here lands female and male , Here the heir - ship and heiress - ship of the world , here the flame of materials , Here spirituality the translatress , the openly - avow'd , 20 LEAVES OF Grass .
... stand in my place with my own day here . Here lands female and male , Here the heir - ship and heiress - ship of the world , here the flame of materials , Here spirituality the translatress , the openly - avow'd , 20 LEAVES OF Grass .
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... stand . Clear and sweet is my soul , and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul . Lack one lacks both , and the unseen is proved by the seen , Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn . Showing the best and dividing ...
... stand . Clear and sweet is my soul , and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul . Lack one lacks both , and the unseen is proved by the seen , Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn . Showing the best and dividing ...
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... stands what I am , Stands amused , complacent , compassionating , idle , unitary , Looks down , is erect , or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest , Looking with side - curved head curious what will come next , Both in and out of ...
... stands what I am , Stands amused , complacent , compassionating , idle , unitary , Looks down , is erect , or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest , Looking with side - curved head curious what will come next , Both in and out of ...
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... stand open and ready , The dried grass of the harvest - time loads the slow - drawn wagon , The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged , The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow . I am there , I help , I came stretch ...
... stand open and ready , The dried grass of the harvest - time loads the slow - drawn wagon , The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged , The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow . I am there , I help , I came stretch ...
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