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 34
... sweet - heart and the old maid , for me mothers and the mothers of mothers , For me lips that have smiled , eyes that have shed tears , For me children and the begetters of children . Undrape ! you are not guilty to me , nor stale nor ...
... sweet - heart and the old maid , for me mothers and the mothers of mothers , For me lips that have smiled , eyes that have shed tears , For me children and the begetters of children . Undrape ! you are not guilty to me , nor stale nor ...
Page 49
... sweet - flag ! timorous pond - snipe ! nest of guarded duplicate eggs ! it shall be you ! Mix'd tussled hay of head , beard , brawn , it shall be you ! Trickling sap of maple , fibre of manly wheat , it shall be you ! Sun so generous it ...
... sweet - flag ! timorous pond - snipe ! nest of guarded duplicate eggs ! it shall be you ! Mix'd tussled hay of head , beard , brawn , it shall be you ! Trickling sap of maple , fibre of manly wheat , it shall be you ! Sun so generous it ...
Page 51
... sweet pangs through my belly and breast . I hear the chorus , it is a grand opera , Ah this indeed is music - this suits me . A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me , The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full ...
... sweet pangs through my belly and breast . I hear the chorus , it is a grand opera , Ah this indeed is music - this suits me . A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me , The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full ...
Page 57
... sweets of the brown mash , sucking the juice through a straw , At apple - peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find , At musters , beach - parties , friendly bees , huskings , house - raisings ; Where the mocking - bird ...
... sweets of the brown mash , sucking the juice through a straw , At apple - peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find , At musters , beach - parties , friendly bees , huskings , house - raisings ; Where the mocking - bird ...
Page 74
... sweet clothes , I kiss you with a good - by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence . Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams , Now I wash the gum from your eyes , You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of ...
... sweet clothes , I kiss you with a good - by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence . Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams , Now I wash the gum from your eyes , You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of ...
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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.