 | Luke Mancuso - 1997 - 180 pages
...history," accompany the speaker to hear the song of the thrush, "the song of death": "Come, lovely, and soothing Death, / Undulate round the world, serenely...to all, to each, / Sooner or later, delicate Death. // Prais'd be the fathomless universe, / . . . O praise and praise / For the sure-enwinding arms of... | |
 | Donald Heinz - 1998 - 319 pages
..."When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" Walt Whitman offered an alternative reading: Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. We fill the craters that are the wounds of death with outpourings of the heart. Religion blossoms.... | |
 | Karl Siegfried Guthke - 1999 - 316 pages
...poem Mother Death is love personified, akin to the angels of death introduced earlier: Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2000 - 564 pages
...the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate Death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, uo For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious; And for love, sweet love — But praise! O praise and praise, For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death. Dark Mother, always gliding... | |
 | Karl Siegfried Guthke - 1999 - 316 pages
...arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And tor love, sweet love - but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 pages
...the divine midwife deserving of its own apostrophe. Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate tound the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each. Soon or later, delicate Death. Apptoach, encompassing Death — sttong Deliveress! When it is so —... | |
 | Roy Morris - 2000 - 290 pages
...Instead, he must wait in "the hiding receiving night" to hear once more the "carol of death": Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night, to all, to each. Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious. And for... | |
 | Lawrence Kramer - 2000 - 218 pages
...the Nightbird' )" follows. Section 5 is based on the first strophe of the bird's song: Come lovely and soothing death. Undulate round the world. serenely...arriving. In the day. in the night. to all. to each. Stumer or later delicate death. ( l 35-38 1 Apparition concludes cyclically with a near repetition... | |
 | Brian Pronger - 2002 - 300 pages
...goodness of death in his 1865 poem 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' (verse 14): 'Come lovely and soothing death, / Undulate round the world, serenely...to all, to each, / Sooner or later delicate death. / Prais'd be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, /... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...for him I love. A carol is a song of joy, and the bird rejoices in the coming of death: Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
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Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. 
