Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt WhitmanSmall, Maynard, 1898 - 257 pages |
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Page xxxii
... Beauty , knowledge , inure not to me things inure to me , - - yet there are two or three I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier , And at intervals waiting or in the midst of Composed these songs . camp , Dearest ...
... Beauty , knowledge , inure not to me things inure to me , - - yet there are two or three I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier , And at intervals waiting or in the midst of Composed these songs . camp , Dearest ...
Page xxxiv
... beauty , age , and power , The genius of poets of old lands , As to me directing like flame its eyes , With finger pointing to many immortal songs , And menacing voice , What singest thou ? it said , Col- Know'st thou not there is but ...
... beauty , age , and power , The genius of poets of old lands , As to me directing like flame its eyes , With finger pointing to many immortal songs , And menacing voice , What singest thou ? it said , Col- Know'st thou not there is but ...
Page xxxvii
... beauty of form and spirit , I could not have written Leaves of Grass . " The great literatures served as a challenge . They taught him the one thing they can teach an original mind , — self- respect . Dead poets , philosophs , priests ...
... beauty of form and spirit , I could not have written Leaves of Grass . " The great literatures served as a challenge . They taught him the one thing they can teach an original mind , — self- respect . Dead poets , philosophs , priests ...
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... beauty , heroism , form , illustrated by the old Hellenic race - the highest height and deepest depth known to civilization in those departments — came from their natural and religious idea of Nakedness . ) Many such hours , from time ...
... beauty , heroism , form , illustrated by the old Hellenic race - the highest height and deepest depth known to civilization in those departments — came from their natural and religious idea of Nakedness . ) Many such hours , from time ...
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... beauty and meaning . The moon well up in the heavens , and past her half , is shining brightly the air and sky of that cynical - clear , Minerva - like quality , virgin cool — not the weight of sentiment or mystery , or passion's ...
... beauty and meaning . The moon well up in the heavens , and past her half , is shining brightly the air and sky of that cynical - clear , Minerva - like quality , virgin cool — not the weight of sentiment or mystery , or passion's ...
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Page 105 - How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet. Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth...
Page 110 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a...
Page 184 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ; But O heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 118 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 182 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Page 156 - Loud! loud! loud! Loud I call to you, my love! High and clear I shoot my voice over the waves, Surely you must know who is here, is here, You must know who I am, my love.
Page 104 - I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Page 180 - Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines. Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song, Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe.
Page 182 - From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night...
Page xxix - Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love...