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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... thousand years , ) These recitatives for thee , - my book and the war are one , Merged in its spirit I and mine , as the contest hinged on thee , As a wheel on its axis turns , this book unwitting to itself , Around the idea of thee ...
... thousand years , ) These recitatives for thee , - my book and the war are one , Merged in its spirit I and mine , as the contest hinged on thee , As a wheel on its axis turns , this book unwitting to itself , Around the idea of thee ...
Page 30
... thousand acres much ? have you reckon'd the earth much ? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read ? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems ? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems ...
... thousand acres much ? have you reckon'd the earth much ? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read ? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems ? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems ...
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... thousand or ten million years , I can cheerfully take it now , or with equal cheerfulness I can wait . My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite , I laugh at what you call dissolution , And I know the amplitude of time . 21 I am ...
... thousand or ten million years , I can cheerfully take it now , or with equal cheerfulness I can wait . My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite , I laugh at what you call dissolution , And I know the amplitude of time . 21 I am ...
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... thousands of years ago , Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth . So they show their relations to me and I accept them , They bring me tokens of myself , they evince them plainly in their possession . I wonder where they ...
... thousands of years ago , Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth . So they show their relations to me and I accept them , They bring me tokens of myself , they evince them plainly in their possession . I wonder where they ...
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... thousand miles , Speeding with tail'd meteors , throwing fire - balls like the rest , Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly , Storming , enjoying , planning , loving , cautioning , Backing and filling ...
... thousand miles , Speeding with tail'd meteors , throwing fire - balls like the rest , Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly , Storming , enjoying , planning , loving , cautioning , Backing and filling ...
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