 | Kurt Abraham - 2002 - 244 pages
...invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.... A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands. How could 1 answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition,... | |
 | David Citino - 2003 - 194 pages
..."What is the grass?" a child asks in Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." The answer comes in many forms: I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out...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 Whose7.... | |
 | Edward S. Cutler - 2003 - 236 pages
...the speaker's own equivocations: How could I answer the child?.... I do not know any more than he. / guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of...the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name in the corners that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess... | |
 | Rosemarie Skaine - 2003 - 224 pages
...—Stare Legislation and Surrogacy Agreemems 1 1 1 Prefacc A child said, What is the gross? fetching it so me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. '-Walt Whitman' A father's roles in the United States have always been complex. Those roles have become... | |
 | Rosemarie Skaine - 2003 - 224 pages
...Arrangements 83 Table 5.1 — State Legislation and Surrogacy Agreements 1 1 1 Preface A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? 1 do not know what it is any more than he. -Walt Whitman' A father's roles in the United States have... | |
 | Maria Hummel - 2003 - 356 pages
...ash. Laurence began to retch, hearing his own voice reciting poetry to the boy in the days before: I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. 75 When he could sit upright again, Laurence stared at the body, hoping someone else would arrive and... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 pages
...in moments of quietude such as this from Chant 6 of his huge poem 'Song of Myself: A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. 'Guessing' is characteristic of Whitman's style of intuition by which a flower on his window-sill 'satisfies... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2005 - 228 pages
...And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed. 6 A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How...child? I do not know what it is any more than he. 100 I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 pages
...title comes from a question early in Song of Myself about the meaning of life: "A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; /...child? .... I do not know what it is any more than he." As you know if you have ever watched children, the question is really (pointing to the grass) "This... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2005 - 232 pages
...of nature, we believe the following is not surpassed in the range of poetry: "A child said, What is grass! fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child! I do not know any more than he. I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord; A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly... | |
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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. 
