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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... SIDE AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME . COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER . PAGE 230 230 231 235 235 VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD - PREST 239 A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK ...
... SIDE AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME . COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER . PAGE 230 230 231 235 235 VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT A MARCH IN THE RANKS HARD - PREST 239 A SIGHT IN CAMP IN THE DAYBREAK ...
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... side expanding , With whistling winds and music of the waves , the large imperious waves , Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine , Where joyous full of faith , spreading white sails , She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the ...
... side expanding , With whistling winds and music of the waves , the large imperious waves , Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine , Where joyous full of faith , spreading white sails , She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the ...
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... side by side ! the elder and younger brothers ! the bony . limb'd ! The great women's land ! the feminine ! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters ! Far breath'd land ! Arctic braced ! Mexican breez'd ! the diverse ! the ...
... side by side ! the elder and younger brothers ! the bony . limb'd ! The great women's land ! the feminine ! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters ! Far breath'd land ! Arctic braced ! Mexican breez'd ! the diverse ! the ...
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... side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea , how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores , See , pastures and forests in my poems - see , animals wild and tame - see , beyond the Kaw , countless herds ...
... side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea , how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores , See , pastures and forests in my poems - see , animals wild and tame - see , beyond the Kaw , countless herds ...
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... sides , The feeling of health , the full - noon trill , the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun . Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much ? have you reckon'd the earth much ? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read ? Have ...
... sides , The feeling of health , the full - noon trill , the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun . Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much ? have you reckon'd the earth much ? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read ? Have ...
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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.