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 55
... turns furiously at the hunter , Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock , where the otter is feeding on fish , Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou , Where the black bear is searching for roots or ...
... turns furiously at the hunter , Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock , where the otter is feeding on fish , Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou , Where the black bear is searching for roots or ...
Page 58
... turn'd up to the clouds , or down a lane or along the beach , My right and left arms round the sides of two friends , and I in the middle ; Coming home with the silent and dark - cheek'd bush - boy , ( behind ) me he rides at the drape ...
... turn'd up to the clouds , or down a lane or along the beach , My right and left arms round the sides of two friends , and I in the middle ; Coming home with the silent and dark - cheek'd bush - boy , ( behind ) me he rides at the drape ...
Page 59
... turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself , I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips . My voice is the wife's voice , the screech by the rail of the stairs , They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd . I ...
... turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself , I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips . My voice is the wife's voice , the screech by the rail of the stairs , They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd . I ...
Page 60
... turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe . I am the mash'd fireman with breast - bone broken , Tumbling walls buried me in their debris , Heat and smoke I inspired , I heard the yelling shouts of my com- rades , I heard the ...
... turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe . I am the mash'd fireman with breast - bone broken , Tumbling walls buried me in their debris , Heat and smoke I inspired , I heard the yelling shouts of my com- rades , I heard the ...
Page 66
... Turn the bed - clothes toward the foot of the bed , Let the physician and the priest go home . I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will , O despairer , here is my neck , By God , you shall not go down ! hang your ...
... Turn the bed - clothes toward the foot of the bed , Let the physician and the priest go home . I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will , O despairer , here is my neck , By God , you shall not go down ! hang your ...
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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.