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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... light for all and entrance - song of all , That of eidólons . Ever the dim beginning , Ever the growth , the rounding of the circle , Ever the summit and the merge at last , ( to surely start again , ) Eidolons ! eidólons ! Ever the ...
... light for all and entrance - song of all , That of eidólons . Ever the dim beginning , Ever the growth , the rounding of the circle , Ever the summit and the merge at last , ( to surely start again , ) Eidolons ! eidólons ! Ever the ...
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... light kisses , a few embraces , a reaching around of arms , The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag , The delight alone or in the rush of the streets , or along the fields and hill - sides , The feeling of ...
... light kisses , a few embraces , a reaching around of arms , The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag , The delight alone or in the rush of the streets , or along the fields and hill - sides , The feeling of ...
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... light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged , The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow . I am there , I help , I came stretch'd atop of the load , I felt its soft jolts , one leg reclined on the other , I jump from the cross ...
... light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged , The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow . I am there , I help , I came stretch'd atop of the load , I felt its soft jolts , one leg reclined on the other , I jump from the cross ...
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... light boots to compete in the race , The western turkey - shooting draws old and young , some lean on their rifles , some sit on logs , Out from the crowd steps the marksman , takes his position , levels his piece ; The groups of newly ...
... light boots to compete in the race , The western turkey - shooting draws old and young , some lean on their rifles , some sit on logs , Out from the crowd steps the marksman , takes his position , levels his piece ; The groups of newly ...
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... meta- physics of books . To behold the day - break ! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows , The air tastes good to my palate . Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising SONG OF Myself . 49.
... meta- physics of books . To behold the day - break ! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows , The air tastes good to my palate . Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising SONG OF Myself . 49.
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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.