Walt WhitmanSwan, Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 132 pages |
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Page 22
... energy , and hope . His task is to foreshadow the future of the democratic life there , to announce things to come . " Fresh come , to a new world indeed , yet long prepared , I see the genius of the modern , child of the real and ideal ...
... energy , and hope . His task is to foreshadow the future of the democratic life there , to announce things to come . " Fresh come , to a new world indeed , yet long prepared , I see the genius of the modern , child of the real and ideal ...
Page 50
... , of Nature ; yet always , according to a rough but convenient distinction , it is the poetry of energy rather than the poetry of art . When Whitman 50 speaks prose , the language of science , he is HIS HIS DEMOCRACY 980.
... , of Nature ; yet always , according to a rough but convenient distinction , it is the poetry of energy rather than the poetry of art . When Whitman 50 speaks prose , the language of science , he is HIS HIS DEMOCRACY 980.
Page 67
... energy , passion , and grandeur which are born out of the great experiences of life . The literature of power always has been , always will be , written for full - grown men and women , for those who have tasted of the fruit of the tree ...
... energy , passion , and grandeur which are born out of the great experiences of life . The literature of power always has been , always will be , written for full - grown men and women , for those who have tasted of the fruit of the tree ...
Page 80
... energy , and the instinct of solidarity . He may be said to begin with the epic of the modern world , in its shirt - sleeves , ploughing and mining , building and weaving , pro- pelling its engines over prairies and mountains , across ...
... energy , and the instinct of solidarity . He may be said to begin with the epic of the modern world , in its shirt - sleeves , ploughing and mining , building and weaving , pro- pelling its engines over prairies and mountains , across ...
Page 105
... energy of a strenuous soul , into a hard system of logical dogma - when we perceive , as we all do now , that Shakspere went through , in a few brief years , a wonderful development of soul which can be traced from the early conceits of ...
... energy of a strenuous soul , into a hard system of logical dogma - when we perceive , as we all do now , that Shakspere went through , in a few brief years , a wonderful development of soul which can be traced from the early conceits of ...
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Page 23 - I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States.
Page 42 - With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys, And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
Page 71 - But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain, or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being.
Page 24 - The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism. In fashionable life, flippancy, tepid amours, weak infidelism, small aims, or no aims at all, only to kill time. In business, (this all-devouring modern word, business,) the one sole object is, by any means, pecuniary gain. The magician's serpent in the fable ate up all the other serpents; and money-making is our magician's serpent, remaining to-day sole master of the field.
Page 58 - Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset— earth of the mountains mistytopt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Page 71 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 25 - Texas, California, Alaska, and reach north for Canada and south for Cuba. It is as if we were somehow being endow'd with a vast and more and more thoroughly-appointed body, and then left with little or no soul.
Page 109 - Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms, Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me...
Page 59 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Page 71 - It creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.