 | 1856 - 602 pages
...than a touch ? Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork...sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'rcuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the... | |
 | Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham - 1864 - 484 pages
...which is nowhere that I know of, expressed in language comparable to this of our American poet : " I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work...sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef d'ouvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the... | |
 | 1875 - 80 pages
...industrious over the whole earth ;" and the Bowery Transcendentalist sang her creed when he chanted, — " I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work...sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ceuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...Here is another illustration of Whitman's habit of exaggerating truth or half-truth into falsehood. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work...highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow, crunching... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 pages
...Here is another illustration of Whitman's habit of exaggerating truth or half-truth into falsehood. " I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work...sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ceuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of heaven, And the... | |
 | 1928 - 694 pages
...counterpart of on the same terms !" He loved Nature and interpreted her moods with loving understanding : "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of Heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...and all shall delight us, and we them. 3* I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the . e eSS °f the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 pages
...The shows of all the varied lands and all the growths and products. The Return of the Heroes. 'jf tf I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work...sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ceuvre for the highest, ? And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And... | |
 | James Vila Blake - 1890 - 376 pages
...like a plainly-clad herald charged with matters of great moment. I can but exclaim with the poet:— '-I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work...sand, and the egg of the Wren. And the tree-toad is a chefd'oevre for the highest. And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven. And the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 348 pages
...the men and women he consorts with, bears comparison with things far off and rarities imagined : * I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. . . And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of heaven. . . And I could come every afternoon of my life... | |
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a... 
