Walt WhitmanSwan, Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 132 pages |
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... never was , and never will be . " 1 Dr. Bucke tells us that the earliest lineal ancestor of Whitman he is able to trace was born in England about 1560. This person's son sailed from England in 1635 , and lived at Milford , Connecticut ...
... never was , and never will be . " 1 Dr. Bucke tells us that the earliest lineal ancestor of Whitman he is able to trace was born in England about 1560. This person's son sailed from England in 1635 , and lived at Milford , Connecticut ...
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... never - ceasing roar of modern human life . He absorbs the influences coming from a gang of stevedores or a crowd of young men from a printing- office as he does these of " the splendid silent sun , " so that he can say with truth- " I ...
... never - ceasing roar of modern human life . He absorbs the influences coming from a gang of stevedores or a crowd of young men from a printing- office as he does these of " the splendid silent sun , " so that he can say with truth- " I ...
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William Clarke. recite poetry . He did not talk much . He was never married , for the reason he gave to Dr. Bucke while the two were enjoying the scenery of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence : " I suppose the chief reason why I never ...
William Clarke. recite poetry . He did not talk much . He was never married , for the reason he gave to Dr. Bucke while the two were enjoying the scenery of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence : " I suppose the chief reason why I never ...
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... never went to college , he has himself told us that in libraries he lies " as one dumb , a gawk , or unborn , or dead , " and his early work in the printing- office prevented him from acquiring what is called " culture . " But when we ...
... never went to college , he has himself told us that in libraries he lies " as one dumb , a gawk , or unborn , or dead , " and his early work in the printing- office prevented him from acquiring what is called " culture . " But when we ...
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... never sold character and intellect in the market , and who has declined and despised the tempting bids which the men of enter- prise make to the men of genius . In a land where the " almighty dollar " is a powerful factor , where friv ...
... never sold character and intellect in the market , and who has declined and despised the tempting bids which the men of enter- prise make to the men of genius . In a land where the " almighty dollar " is a powerful factor , where friv ...
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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.