 Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you...  The Californian - Page 3861880Full view - About this book
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...if the reader's imagination had been left to make the best of it. Whitman wire-draws it thus : — Tenderly will I use you, curling grass, It may be...old people, and from women, and from offspring taken out of their mothers' laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers ; Darker... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 pages
...the best of it. \Yliitman wire-draws it thus : — " Tenderly will I use you. curling grass It may bo you transpire from the breasts of young men , It may...I had known them I would have loved them ; It may bo you are from old people, and from women, and from offspring taken out of their mothers' laps. This... | |
 | Edward King - 1888 - 886 pages
...eccentric verses might have thought, above the unrecognizable graves, of those strange lines : — " Tenderly will I use you, curling grass. It may be...old people and from women, and from offspring taken too soon from their mothers' laps. They are alive and well somewhere. The smallest sprout shows there... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...then? tU» same I receive them the same. And uosv it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you...transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I hud known them I would have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 680 pages
...same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling giass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young...have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 474 pages
...the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. S "* Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you...have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring tak^n soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1898 - 322 pages
...them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you...have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1898 - 320 pages
...them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you...have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1900 - 554 pages
...them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you, curling grass ; It may be...and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps ; And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1900 - 594 pages
...them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you, curling grass ; It may be...loved them ; It may be you are from old people, and fiom women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps ; And here you are the mothers'... | |
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