Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads |
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Page 5
O LIVING ALWAYS , ALWAYS DYING TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE . . NIGHT ON
THE PRAIRIES . . THOUGHT . LAST INVOCATION in PioUGHING . As I WATCH '
D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING . PENSIVE AND FALTERING . . . . . . . . THOU
...
O LIVING ALWAYS , ALWAYS DYING TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE . . NIGHT ON
THE PRAIRIES . . THOUGHT . LAST INVOCATION in PioUGHING . As I WATCH '
D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING . PENSIVE AND FALTERING . . . . . . . . THOU
...
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Densities , growth , façades , Strata of mountains , soils , rocks , giant trees , Far -
born , far - dying , living long , to leave , Eidolons everlasting . Exaltė , rapt ,
ecstatic , The visible but their womb of birth , Of orbic tendencies to shape and
shape ...
Densities , growth , façades , Strata of mountains , soils , rocks , giant trees , Far -
born , far - dying , living long , to leave , Eidolons everlasting . Exaltė , rapt ,
ecstatic , The visible but their womb of birth , Of orbic tendencies to shape and
shape ...
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Melange mine own , the unseen and the seen , Mysterious ocean where the
streams empty , Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me ,
Living beings , identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of ,
Contact ...
Melange mine own , the unseen and the seen , Mysterious ocean where the
streams empty , Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me ,
Living beings , identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of ,
Contact ...
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... What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd
by decorum, Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances,
rejections with convex lips, I mind them or the show or resonance of them — I
come ...
... What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd
by decorum, Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances,
rejections with convex lips, I mind them or the show or resonance of them — I
come ...
Page 35
... What living and buried speech is always vibrating here , what howls restrain ' d
by decorum , Arrests of criminals , slights , adulterous offers made , acceptances ,
rejections with convex lips , I mind them or the show or resonance of them — I ...
... What living and buried speech is always vibrating here , what howls restrain ' d
by decorum , Arrests of criminals , slights , adulterous offers made , acceptances ,
rejections with convex lips , I mind them or the show or resonance of them — I ...
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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.
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| Title | Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads |
| Author | Walt Whitman |
| Publisher | Small, Maynard, 1897 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2005 |
| Length | 455 pages |
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