 | 1928 - 458 pages
...perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night! O great...harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities, Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 pages
...resolution. This pressure is evident in the frenzied plaint of section 2: O powerful, western, fallen star! O shades of night! O moody, tearful night! O great star...harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul! (Sequel, p. 3) The despair the poet expresses in this passage is more than a response to Lincoln's... | |
 | Ralph Friedman - 1990 - 820 pages
...Oregon, planted before Oregon became a state, and bringing to mind the evocative words of Walt Whitman: "In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the whitewash'd palings,/ Stands the lilac bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green." Across O 21 1 is house purportedly... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1993 - 150 pages
...perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night - O moody, tearful night! O great...harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - 1991 - 334 pages
...powerful western fallen star! O shades of night — moody, tearful night! ! O great star disappear' d — O the black murk that hides the star! O cruel hands that hold me powerless — helpless soul of me! O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. The cruel hands are... | |
 | Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 pages
...perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. II O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night— O moody, tearful night! O great...harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. Ill In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the whitewash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...powerful western fallen star! O shades of night—O moody, tearful night! O great star disappear'd—O the black murk that hides the star! O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me! O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. In the dooryard... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pages
...powerful, western, fallen star! O shades of night! O moody, tearful night! O great star disappeared! O the black murk that hides the star! O cruel hands...harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul! In the door-yard, fronting an old farm-house, near the whitewashed palings, Stands the lilac bush,... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night! O great...disappear'd — O the black murk that hides the star! 10 O cruel hands that hold me powerless — O helpless soul of me! O harsh surrounding cloud that will... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - 1997 - 180 pages
...for in section 2, the representative speaker apostrophizes: "O powerful, western, fallen star! / O shades of night! O moody, tearful night! / O great...harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul!" (LG Varll, 529). The "star" had its biographical basis in Whitman's experience (the planet Venus had... | |
| |
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. 
