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" 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. "
Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age ... - Page 28
by Walt Whitman - 1897 - 455 pages
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The Oxford Book of American Verse

Bliss Carman - 1927 - 714 pages
...bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?...
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The Oxford Book of American Verse

Bliss Carman - 1927 - 718 pages
...bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. 162 Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,...
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The Oxford Book of American Verse

Bliss Carman - 1927 - 722 pages
...more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. 162 Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1928 - 598 pages
...of Myself," which contains some of his best-known phrases : — " A child said What is the grass t fetching It to me with full hands , How could I answer...Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we ma v see and remark, and say W host I "Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of...
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Munsey's Magazine for ..., Volume 14

1896 - 864 pages
...neither cold nor heat would hinder from growing, nor trampling feet would kill." A child said, "What is the grass ? " fetching it to me with full hands...flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff growing. These lines are from one of Whitman's earliest utterances — the "Song of Myself." In his...
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The Oxford Book of American Verse

Bliss Carman - 1927 - 720 pages
...bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose!...
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Choosing Not Choosing

Sharon Cameron - 1992 - 280 pages
...dancer from the dance? ("Among School Children") and Whitman: A child said What is the grass? . . . I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out...woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform...
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The Green Bible

Stephen B. Scharper, Hilary Cunningham - 1993 - 124 pages
...middle of the garden and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Genesis 2:8-9 A child said, What is grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is anymore than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or...
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Walt Whitman of Mickle Street: A Centennial Collection

Geoffrey M. Sill - 1994 - 340 pages
...(sometimes six, sometimes eight) and uses a free triple meter with many substitutions: A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. ("Song of Myself," LG 33) A verse strophe may commence with a shorter line and continue with normative...
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A Selected Prose

Robert Duncan - 1995 - 252 pages
...he had begun, he tells us, to see the natural world as a text of hieroglyphics: A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?...
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