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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Page 92
... dear sake my love . AGES AND AGES RETURNING AT INTERVALS . AGES and ages returning at intervals , Undestroy'd , wandering immortal , Lusty , phallic , with the potent original loins , perfectly sweet , I , chanter of Adamic songs ...
... dear sake my love . AGES AND AGES RETURNING AT INTERVALS . AGES and ages returning at intervals , Undestroy'd , wandering immortal , Lusty , phallic , with the potent original loins , perfectly sweet , I , chanter of Adamic songs ...
Page 99
... dear friends dead or alive , thicker they come , a great crowd , and I in the middle , Collecting , dispensing , singing , there I wander with them , Plucking something for tokens , tossing toward whoever is near me , Here , lilac ...
... dear friends dead or alive , thicker they come , a great crowd , and I in the middle , Collecting , dispensing , singing , there I wander with them , Plucking something for tokens , tossing toward whoever is near me , Here , lilac ...
Page 101
... dear friends , When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand , When the subtle air , the impalpable , the sense that words and reason hold not , surround us and pervade us , Then I am charged with ...
... dear friends , When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand , When the subtle air , the impalpable , the sense that words and reason hold not , surround us and pervade us , Then I am charged with ...
Page 102
... dear love of man for his comrade , the attraction of friend to friend , Of the well - married husband and wife , of children and parents , Of city for city and land for land . RECORDERS AGES HENCE . RECORDERS ages hence , Come , I will ...
... dear love of man for his comrade , the attraction of friend to friend , Of the well - married husband and wife , of children and parents , Of city for city and land for land . RECORDERS AGES HENCE . RECORDERS ages hence , Come , I will ...
Page 103
... dear friend my lover was on his way coming , O then I was happy , O then each breath tasted sweeter , and all that day my food nourish'd me more , and the beautiful day pass'd well , And the next came with equal joy , and with the next ...
... dear friend my lover was on his way coming , O then I was happy , O then each breath tasted sweeter , and all that day my food nourish'd me more , and the beautiful day pass'd well , And the next came with equal joy , and with the next ...
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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.