Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt WhitmanSmall, Maynard & Company, 1898 - 257 pages |
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Page xviii
... amid these songs , And set a tombstone here . " As to loving and disinterested parents , " Whitman has said , “ no boy or man ever had more cause to bless and thank them than I. " Of this inheritance of blood the Dutch ancestry is the ...
... amid these songs , And set a tombstone here . " As to loving and disinterested parents , " Whitman has said , “ no boy or man ever had more cause to bless and thank them than I. " Of this inheritance of blood the Dutch ancestry is the ...
Page xxxviii
... amid these influences , in these surroundings . Queer how new and different the books and authors appear in the open air , with wind blowing and birds calling in the bushes and you on the banks of the negligent pond . I get some old ...
... amid these influences , in these surroundings . Queer how new and different the books and authors appear in the open air , with wind blowing and birds calling in the bushes and you on the banks of the negligent pond . I get some old ...
Page xxxix
... amid all the books , of Whitman's self . That which he read was taken for verification to his own consciousness . As Horace Traubel says , " He was never cheated by books . " His knowledge never appeared as pedantry , but was dissolved ...
... amid all the books , of Whitman's self . That which he read was taken for verification to his own consciousness . As Horace Traubel says , " He was never cheated by books . " His knowledge never appeared as pedantry , but was dissolved ...
Page xli
... , silently approaching and seating himself near , that he may hold me by the hand , A long while amid the noises of coming and going , of drinking and oath and smutty jest , There we two , content , happy in being together INTRODUCTION xli.
... , silently approaching and seating himself near , that he may hold me by the hand , A long while amid the noises of coming and going , of drinking and oath and smutty jest , There we two , content , happy in being together INTRODUCTION xli.
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... amid a grove the Albic druids might have chosen - envelop'd in the warmth and light of the noonday sun , and swarms of flitting insects with the harsh cawing of many crows a hundred rods away - here I sit in solitude , absorbing ...
... amid a grove the Albic druids might have chosen - envelop'd in the warmth and light of the noonday sun , and swarms of flitting insects with the harsh cawing of many crows a hundred rods away - here I sit in solitude , absorbing ...
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American amid Anne Gilchrist beauty Behold bird body breath Brooklyn chant clouds comrades curious dark dead dear death Democracy divine earth Elias Hicks eternal eyes face Fitz-James O'Brien give globe greatest poet ground hand hear heart heaven horses hour human immortal J. A. Symonds Journeyers land laws Leaves of Grass light living Long Island look moon mother Nature never night ocean palpable pass pass'd Passage to India passion perfect perhaps person poems poet poetry prairies Quaker race rest Richard Maurice Bucke rising sail scene ship shore side silent sing soldiers song soothing 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 wild wind woman women woods word young
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Page 185 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN ! O CAPTAIN ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd 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 176 - 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 109 - I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
Page 182 - And the charm of the carol rapt me, As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.
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 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, I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at,fhy ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Page 155 - Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating. Shine! shine! shine! Pour down your warmth, great sun! While we bask, we two together. Two together! Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding no time, While we two keep together.
Page 119 - Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass...
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...
Page 117 - I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.