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" 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... "
Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman - Page 119
by Walt Whitman - 1898 - 257 pages
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New Outlook, Volume 122

1919 - 714 pages
...shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it. ... I hear and behold God in every object. . . . In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass ; I find letters of God dropt in the street — and every one is signed by God's name." The touchstone of Whitman's...
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John Ruskin: His Life and Work, Issue 68

William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...Life and Work of John Ruskin. A DISCIPLE OF PLATO Why should I wish to see God better than this day ? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four,...letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go. Others will...
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The New England Magazine, Volume 6; Volume 12

1892 - 848 pages
...the universe : •"No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death." •" I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name." Finally, this man is our greatest singer of death songs. The Greeks luxuriated...
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Poet Lore, Volume 17

1906 - 554 pages
...drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion, The following chants each for its kind I sing. ' ' In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my...find letters from God dropt in the street, and every oneissign'd by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go, Others...
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Liberty in Literature: Testimonial to Walt Whitman

Robert Green Ingersoll - 1891 - 92 pages
...understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. . . . In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my...the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name. The whole visible world is regarded by him as a revelation, and so is the invisible world, and with...
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Favorite Selections of Julia and Annie Thomas

1892 - 230 pages
...understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. Why should I wish to see God better than this day! I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four...my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are; for...
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Unity Pulpit, Volume 14

1892 - 666 pages
...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...my own face in the glass. I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name; And I leave them where they are, for...
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Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye My Fancy, Old Age ...

Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 pages
...understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. Why should I wish to see God better than this day ? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four,...street, and every one is sign'd by God's name, And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. To his work without...
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 pages
...understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four,...the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name, 49 And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. To his work...
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - 1897 - 462 pages
...understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. Why should I wish to see God better than this day ? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four,...dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go, Others will punctually come...
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