 | Peter J. Bellis - 2010 - 233 pages
...ejaculations that split Whitman's lines in two and deny them either rhythmic or syntactical completion: O shades of night! O moody, tearful night! O great star...hands that hold me powerless! O helpless soul of me! (2:529) Thus blocked from utterance, the poet turns to nature for an adequate representation or response:... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2003 - 612 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! In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the whitewash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 pages
...Door-yard Bloom'd," reflected a passionate mourning for his hero. 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! But by the time Whitman marked the twenty-second anniversary of Lincoln's assassination with a lecture... | |
 | J. D. McClatchy - 2005 - 240 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... | |
 | Samuel Agnew Schreiner - 2005 - 340 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." For a while... | |
 | Max Cavitch - 363 pages
...perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. 2 O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night! O great...harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. (Leaves of Grass, 2:529) Eschewing the familiar metrical composure of the English poetic line, "indelibly... | |
 | Eric Patterson - 2008 - 376 pages
...expression of grief as intense as that in any of the other great elegies: O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night— O moody, tearful night! O great...me! O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.57 Then, amid the extraordinary national ceremony of Lincoln's funeral, Whitman presents himself... | |
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Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. 
