Walt WhitmanSwan, Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 132 pages |
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... expression and yet also its nutriment , its spiritual food . He looks forward to " poets not only possess'd of the religious fire and abandon of Isaiah , luxuriant in the epic talent of Homer , or for proud characters as in Shakspere ...
... expression and yet also its nutriment , its spiritual food . He looks forward to " poets not only possess'd of the religious fire and abandon of Isaiah , luxuriant in the epic talent of Homer , or for proud characters as in Shakspere ...
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... expressed the life of his own nation , the very character of his own continent . America had scarcely arrived , has hardly arrived yet , at any consciousness of her true life . She is the land of beginnings and tendencies , her very ...
... expressed the life of his own nation , the very character of his own continent . America had scarcely arrived , has hardly arrived yet , at any consciousness of her true life . She is the land of beginnings and tendencies , her very ...
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... expressed , in a most striking poem , the power and majesty , the wonderful mystery of so common an object as a locomotive : " Fierce - throated beauty ! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless Music , thy swinging lamps at night ...
... expressed , in a most striking poem , the power and majesty , the wonderful mystery of so common an object as a locomotive : " Fierce - throated beauty ! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless Music , thy swinging lamps at night ...
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William Clarke. He has expressed here just the feeling which the engineman has for the wonderful object whose move- ments he directs : he idealises it as a splendid , strong- limbed , passionate , almost voluptuous beauty , with coarse ...
William Clarke. He has expressed here just the feeling which the engineman has for the wonderful object whose move- ments he directs : he idealises it as a splendid , strong- limbed , passionate , almost voluptuous beauty , with coarse ...
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... expressed the deepest feel- ings for its social sanctities , for the ideal side of its traditions and laws . They loved and interpreted Nature , they felt in their souls the beauty of her life , they delighted in heroism and comradeship ...
... expressed the deepest feel- ings for its social sanctities , for the ideal side of its traditions and laws . They loved and interpreted Nature , they felt in their souls the beauty of her life , they delighted in heroism and comradeship ...
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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.