 | 1856 - 602 pages
...Creation is love ; And limitless are leaves, stiff or drooping in the fields. A child said, what is the Grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name some way in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose... | |
 | 1866 - 908 pages
...worm-fence, and heaped stones, alder, mullen, sod pokeweed. "A child said, ' Wliat it the grata ?' fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer...know what it is any more than he. I guess it must bo the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven, Or I guess it is the handkerchief... | |
 | 1880 - 604 pages
...Here are some strange passages from Whitman in which strange mixtures occur : "A child said, What is the grass? — fetching it to me with full hands. How could I answer the child ? 1 do not know What it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...justness of his taste in securing witching wordeffects, in naming his book for it. " A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...out of hopeful green stuff woven Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among... | |
 | Edith Matilda Thomas - 1886 - 330 pages
...protective, and the hurts I receive are far less painful than they used to be." GEASS: A RUMINATION. I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, That we may see and remark, and Bay, Whose... | |
 | Edith Matilda Thomas - 1886 - 316 pages
...protective, and the hurts I receive are far less painful than they used to be." GRASS: A RUMINATION. I gueaa it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, That we may see and remark, and say, Whose... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 pages
...shame, nor dole ! Depart — a God-enfranchis' d soul ! The Singer in the Prison. A child said What is the Grass ? fetching it to me with full hands ; How...guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hooeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 pages
...shame, nor dole .' Depart — a God-enfranchis' d soul! T/ie Singer in the Prison. A child said What is the Grass? fetching it to me with full hands ; How...guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hooeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...strike up for a New World. A FROM THE "SONG OP MYSELF." LEAVES OF GRASS. CHILD said What is tfa gras* ? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer...know what it is any more than he. I guess it must 1x3 the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief... | |
 | 1892 - 862 pages
...said, What is the grass? fetching c ' me with full hands; How could I answer the child? 1 do not k» what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposd' out of hopeful green stuff woven Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means sprouting... | |
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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. 
