 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1921 - 204 pages
...however much he might himself dislike the word. The first of his Inscriptions begins:— One's Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. 4 He is always, and consciously, concerned with the problem of the Universal and the Particular; and... | |
 | Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 282 pages
...for all, is clear from the lines which Whitman elected to stand first in Leaves of Grass " One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. " Of life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action formed under laws divine, The... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 pages
...as the opening lines of his book declare, recognized it as the very heart of his theme : One's-Self I sing — a simple, separate Person ; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse. There is the mystery which enchanted him and which perplexes us still — the mystery of the coexistence... | |
 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 544 pages
...individualism on the one hand and the inspiring sweep of his idea of democracy on the other : "One's self I sing, a simple, separate person; Yet utter the word democratic, the word en masse." The New England poets believed in America and in democracy, but always with moments of anxious... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1923 - 570 pages
...this "Inscription" which, after many changes, he placed at the beginning of his works : One's Self I sing — a simple, separate Person ; Yet utter the...word En-masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, . . . Of Life immense in passion, pulse and power, Cheerful — for freest action form'd under the... | |
 | Bruce Weirick - 1924 - 272 pages
...which to-day make the patriot grieve ! He believes in liberty and he believes too in union. "One's-Self I sing — a simple separate person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse." And so we might answer, do we all of us. Yet how shall the two be reconciled? It is the chief problem... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 pages
...die to make men free, While God is marching on. WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) One's-self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word...physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,... | |
 | Jean André Wahl, Fred Rothwell - 1925 - 354 pages
...friendship of war companions. Comradeship and individuality are not opposed to each other : " One's self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse." Thus we have discovered in men like Channing, Henry James, Emerson, suggestions of doctrines which... | |
 | George Douglas Howard Cole - 1925 - 504 pages
...all praise or blame, accorded to him, as given him in a sort of representative capacity. " Oneself I sing, a simple separate Person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En Masse." As Whitman felt that he was Young America, Cobbett felt that he was Old England. He knew... | |
 | Victor Francis Calverton - 1925 - 298 pages
...be revealed to each other as brothers." His poems are mellifluous with the same strain: "One's Self I sing — a simple, separate Person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En Masse." Of the greatness of the destiny of the mass he sings, incessantly, audaciously. Their sufferings... | |
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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... 
