Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd RoadsSmall, Maynard & Company, 1897 - 455 pages |
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... THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY I HEARD YOU Solemn - Sweet Pipes of the Organ FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHores AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING 95 2258828KKKKKKK 91 92 92 93 93 93 94 94 95 CALAMUS . IN PATHS Untrodden . SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY.
... THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY I HEARD YOU Solemn - Sweet Pipes of the Organ FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHores AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING 95 2258828KKKKKKK 91 92 92 93 93 93 94 94 95 CALAMUS . IN PATHS Untrodden . SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY.
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... WEST SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE TO A WESTERN BOY . FAST - ANCHOR'D ETERNAL O LOVE WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND ? 101 101 102 102 103 103 104 104 105 105 105 100 106 107 107 107 108 108 108 108 109 109 109 109 110 110 110 110 ...
... WEST SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE TO A WESTERN BOY . FAST - ANCHOR'D ETERNAL O LOVE WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND ? 101 101 102 102 103 103 104 104 105 105 105 100 106 107 107 107 108 108 108 108 109 109 109 109 110 110 110 110 ...
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... HEARD YOU SOLEMN - SWEET PIPES OF THE ORGAN FACING WEST from CALIFORNIA'S SHORES AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING 2288282KKKKKKK 79 79 81 89 91 92 92 93 93 93 94 94 94 95 95 CALAMUS . IN PATHS UNTRODDEN . SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY.
... HEARD YOU SOLEMN - SWEET PIPES OF THE ORGAN FACING WEST from CALIFORNIA'S SHORES AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING 2288282KKKKKKK 79 79 81 89 91 92 92 93 93 93 94 94 94 95 95 CALAMUS . IN PATHS UNTRODDEN . SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY.
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... WEST SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE TO A WESTERN BOY . FAST - ANCHOR'D ETERNAL O LOVE AMONG THE Multitude O YOU WHOM I Often and SILENTLY COME . THAT SHADOW MY LIKENESS FULL OF LIFE NOW SALUT AU MONDE ! 102 103 103 104 104 105 105 105 106 ...
... WEST SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE TO A WESTERN BOY . FAST - ANCHOR'D ETERNAL O LOVE AMONG THE Multitude O YOU WHOM I Often and SILENTLY COME . THAT SHADOW MY LIKENESS FULL OF LIFE NOW SALUT AU MONDE ! 102 103 103 104 104 105 105 105 106 ...
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... EIGHTEEN SIXTY - ONE 221 BEAT ! BEAT ! DRUMS !. 222 FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD . 222 SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK 223 KISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS 228 DRUM - TAPS . VIRGINIA THE WEST CITY OF SHIPS CONTENTS . 3.
... EIGHTEEN SIXTY - ONE 221 BEAT ! BEAT ! DRUMS !. 222 FROM PAUMANOK STARTING I FLY LIKE A BIRD . 222 SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK 223 KISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS 228 DRUM - TAPS . VIRGINIA THE WEST CITY OF SHIPS CONTENTS . 3.
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Page 254 - 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. O Captain! my Captain!
Page 28 - A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Page 1 - One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing: Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse; I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male I sing. 5 Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing.
Page 252 - Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong deliveress, When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, ; Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.
Page 254 - 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 27 - Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex, Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
Page 247 - Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.
Page 249 - As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe, As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night...
Page 38 - Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Page 41 - I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.