Walt WhitmanD. McKay, 1883 - 236 pages |
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Page 18
... less , the air fresh and healthy , the numerous bays and creeks swarming with aquatic birds , the south - side meadows covered with salt hay , the soil generally tough , but affording numberless springs of the sweetest water in the ...
... less , the air fresh and healthy , the numerous bays and creeks swarming with aquatic birds , the south - side meadows covered with salt hay , the soil generally tough , but affording numberless springs of the sweetest water in the ...
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... sea - side , in the fields , sometimes stopped work to write . Certainly no book was ever more directly written from living impulses and impromptu sights , and less in the abstract . Quit house - building in the spring of 3 1850 to '55 .
... sea - side , in the fields , sometimes stopped work to write . Certainly no book was ever more directly written from living impulses and impromptu sights , and less in the abstract . Quit house - building in the spring of 3 1850 to '55 .
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... less dear to me than my own . So many remembrances of him in those by gone years come crowding to my mind that to choose what will be most characteristic , and most likely to interest those who know him only from his books , is a task ...
... less dear to me than my own . So many remembrances of him in those by gone years come crowding to my mind that to choose what will be most characteristic , and most likely to interest those who know him only from his books , is a task ...
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... less than a minute is sound and peacefully asleep without another whimper , utterly fagged out . A square or so more , and the conductor , who has had an unusually hard and uninterrupted day's work , gets off for his first meal and ...
... less than a minute is sound and peacefully asleep without another whimper , utterly fagged out . A square or so more , and the conductor , who has had an unusually hard and uninterrupted day's work , gets off for his first meal and ...
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... less than a quarter of his income upon himself , putting by about one - third of the remainder , and using the rest , first for a dear relative at home , and then for needy per- sons and the inmates of the army hospitals , his visits to ...
... less than a quarter of his income upon himself , putting by about one - third of the remainder , and using the rest , first for a dear relative at home , and then for needy per- sons and the inmates of the army hospitals , his visits to ...
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Page 216 - 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 184 - Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Page 216 - I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare-bosom'd night— press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds— night of the large few stars! Still nodding night— mad naked summer night.
Page 221 - I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air. Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death.
Page 234 - I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
Page 167 - Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
Page 36 - Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
Page 234 - Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.
Page 103 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin — I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Page 207 - I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start.