Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt WhitmanSmall, Maynard, 1898 - 257 pages |
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... perhaps to conceive of Whitman not so much as a separate person as the representative of a cosmic instinct and tendency . V Nevertheless , the incarnated form and soul have to be consid- ered , with their particular growths and ...
... perhaps to conceive of Whitman not so much as a separate person as the representative of a cosmic instinct and tendency . V Nevertheless , the incarnated form and soul have to be consid- ered , with their particular growths and ...
Page xxii
... perhaps the most pronounced half - day's experience of my whole jaunt . Of the general region Whitman has said : " How well I re- member the region — the flat plains with their prairie like vistas and grassy patches in every direction ...
... perhaps the most pronounced half - day's experience of my whole jaunt . Of the general region Whitman has said : " How well I re- member the region — the flat plains with their prairie like vistas and grassy patches in every direction ...
Page xxvii
... perhaps , worthy of report , the one that gives meaning to his life , explains his poems , and certifies to his right to immortality . About the year 1850 , apparently as the result of a momentary inspiration , in reality as issue of a ...
... perhaps , worthy of report , the one that gives meaning to his life , explains his poems , and certifies to his right to immortality . About the year 1850 , apparently as the result of a momentary inspiration , in reality as issue of a ...
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... ( perhaps my element ) . " The war again was the occasion of his own physical prostration , the checking of his enormous vitality at its high tide . He said he volunteered as a nurse because he was so strong and well . But in 1864 the ...
... ( perhaps my element ) . " The war again was the occasion of his own physical prostration , the checking of his enormous vitality at its high tide . He said he volunteered as a nurse because he was so strong and well . But in 1864 the ...
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... perhaps the most thrilling summons to arms and at the same time the most deeply moving aspects of suffering and death ever presented in song , were published in 1865 , the imme- diate output of the conflict . Democratic Vistas , his ...
... perhaps the most thrilling summons to arms and at the same time the most deeply moving aspects of suffering and death ever presented in song , were published in 1865 , the imme- diate output of the conflict . Democratic Vistas , his ...
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American amid Anne Gilchrist beauty Behold bird body breath chant clouds comrades curious dark dead dear death Democracy divine dream earth Elias Hicks eternal eyes face faith forever give globe gray greatest poet ground hand hear heart heaven Hegel horses hour human immortal J. A. Symonds Journeyers land laws Leaves of Grass light living look moon mother Nature never night ocean pass pass'd Passage to India passion perfect person Peter Doyle poems poet poetry prairies race rest Richard Maurice Bucke rising Roden Noël sail ship shore silent sing soldiers song soothe soul Specimen Days spirit stand stars strong sweet T. W. Rolleston tears thee thine things thou thought to-day trees vast voice wait walk Walt Whitman waves wild wind woman women woods word young
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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...