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 69
... faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths , Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern , Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years , Waiting responses from oracles ...
... faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths , Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern , Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years , Waiting responses from oracles ...
Page 116
... faith- fully and long and then died , I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son , the full - limb'd Bacchus , I see Kneph , blooming , drest in blue , with the crown of feathers on his ...
... faith- fully and long and then died , I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son , the full - limb'd Bacchus , I see Kneph , blooming , drest in blue , with the crown of feathers on his ...
Page 138
... faith , to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again . A OUR OLD FEUILLAGE . LWAYS our old feuillage ! Always Florida's green peninsula - always the priceless . delta of Louisiana - always the cotton - fields of Alabama ...
... faith , to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again . A OUR OLD FEUILLAGE . LWAYS our old feuillage ! Always Florida's green peninsula - always the priceless . delta of Louisiana - always the cotton - fields of Alabama ...
Page 165
... faith and death ? ) While we rehearse our measureless wealth , it is for thee , dear Mother , We own it all and several to - day indissoluble in thee ; Think not our chant , our show , merely for products gross or lucre -it is for thee ...
... faith and death ? ) While we rehearse our measureless wealth , it is for thee , dear Mother , We own it all and several to - day indissoluble in thee ; Think not our chant , our show , merely for products gross or lucre -it is for thee ...
Page 180
... faith that tells the best , I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold . Say on , sayers ! sing on , singers ! Delve ! mould ! pile the words of the earth ! Work on , age after age , nothing is to be lost , It ...
... faith that tells the best , I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold . Say on , sayers ! sing on , singers ! Delve ! mould ! pile the words of the earth ! Work on , age after age , nothing is to be lost , It ...
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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.