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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... eyes , With finger pointing to many immortal songs , And menacing voice , What singest thou ? it said , Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever - enduring bards ? And that is the theme of War , the fortune of battles , The ...
... eyes , With finger pointing to many immortal songs , And menacing voice , What singest thou ? it said , Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever - enduring bards ? And that is the theme of War , the fortune of battles , The ...
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... passing on in its turn , With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen , With eyes retrospective towards me . 3 Americanos ! conquerors ! marches humanitarian ! Foremost century STARTING FROM PAUMANOK . 19.
... passing on in its turn , With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen , With eyes retrospective towards me . 3 Americanos ! conquerors ! marches humanitarian ! Foremost century STARTING FROM PAUMANOK . 19.
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... eyes , and carry you with me the same as any . I will make the true poem of riches , To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death ; I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all , and ...
... eyes , and carry you with me the same as any . I will make the true poem of riches , To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death ; I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all , and ...
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... eyes of the dead , nor feed on the spectres in books , You shall not look through my eyes either , nor take things from me , You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self . 3 I have heard what the talkers were talking ...
... eyes of the dead , nor feed on the spectres in books , You shall not look through my eyes either , nor take things from me , You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self . 3 I have heard what the talkers were talking ...
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... eyes , That they turn from gazing after and down the road , And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent , Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two , and which is ahead ? 4 Trippers and askers surround me , People I meet ...
... eyes , That they turn from gazing after and down the road , And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent , Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two , and which is ahead ? 4 Trippers and askers surround me , People I meet ...
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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.