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" Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all men ever born are also... "
Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman - Page xxix
by Walt Whitman - 1898 - 257 pages
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Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

Walt Whitman - 2005 - 232 pages
...static compared with the motion of peace and knowledge. Eros makes waves, but they are halcyon waves. The peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth are what Eliot perhaps alludes to in the triple "Shantih" at the end of "The Waste Land,"" glossed...
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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

Richard Tarnas - 2006 - 604 pages
.../ believe in you, my Soul . . . I mind how once we lay, such a transparent summer morning. Sn'i/r/v arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge...is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever horn are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is...
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Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman: A Transatlantic Bridge

D. J. Moores - 2006 - 260 pages
...till you held my feet. Swiftly arose and spread around me that peace and knowledge that passed all argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of...of God is the brother of my own, And that all the man ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation...
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Exiled Royalties : Melville and the Life We Imagine: Melville and the Life ...

Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis - 2005 - 312 pages
...194). A mood was not the basis for a metaphysics. Unlike Whitman's epiphany in "Song of Myself" — "Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and...the argument of the earth / And I know . . . that a kelson of the creation is love" ("Song of Myself," 11. 91-92, 95) — Ishmael's "eternal mildness...
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Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero

Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...spontaneous union of body and soul is union with the world and all of humanity. As the speaker continues, Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God...
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American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction

Ezra Cappell - 2007 - 246 pages
...Gassner's speech on Whitman contains these famous lines from section five of "Song of Myself": And I know the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that the kelson of creation...
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Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet: Leaves of Grass by Indirection

John W. McDonald - 2007 - 251 pages
...on all its omnipotence.25 For Emerson "it disdains words and passes understanding." Whitman gained "the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth" (Sec. 5). Priestley found "a serenity and joy which the world can neither give nor take away. " The...
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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism : a Biography

Robert D. Richardson - 2006 - 660 pages
...when loafing on the grass on some transparent summer morning that 'Swiftly arose and spread around him the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth' ... To feel 'I am the truth' is to abolish the opposition between knowing and being."6 To James's "Remarks...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

M. Jimmie Killingsworth - 2007 - 123 pages
...and the phallus mirrored in "the leaves stiff or drooping in the fields." Spreading out before him is "the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth," the knowledge that "a kelson of the creation is love" ("kelson" referring to a strengthening timber...
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