 | 1921 - 768 pages
...p. 225. apogee of self-consciousness. He begins a poem called Wall Whitman in this way: "I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you. Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems; You shall possess the... | |
 | Grant Martin Overton - 1921 - 390 pages
...beginning and commenced reading aloud; I believe I can even now recall the opening lines: / celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Yes, those were the words ; but they needed all that followed to make them plain. The boys seemed surprised... | |
 | Constance Ellen Long - 1921 - 248 pages
...this way 1 : — 1 " Leaves o{ Grass." Centenary Edition. JX Appleton & Co., New York. " I celebrate myself ; And what I assume you shall assume ; For...every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you. • ••••••* Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo. WM. WATSON — The Political Luminary. 9 ns Day. or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or...vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, as belongs to you. WALT WHITMAN — Song of Mysdf. I. 10 Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 pages
...desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? From "The Song of Myself" I celebrate myself, and sing myself,...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Born here of... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1924 - 764 pages
...— O one more desirer and lover! O to haste firm holding — to haste, haste on with me. 1860 1881 SONG OF MYSELF I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, „ ,.-'" And what I assume you shall assume, 'r I For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and... | |
 | Baker Brownell - 1926 - 476 pages
..."Spontaneous Me" he finds friendship, love, sex, America, democracy, being, the universe, all implicit: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. But all poets at heart through all tune sing much the same song. And all men in their spiritual wonder,... | |
 | Bliss Carman - 1927 - 718 pages
...And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew. WALT WHITMAN 1819-1892 88. From " Song of {Myself " I I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you, I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every... | |
 | Bliss Carman - 1927 - 714 pages
...pulse, And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew. WALT WHITMAN 1819-1892 88. From " Song of Myself " I I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you, I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1928 - 294 pages
...his first edition became one of his most familiar utterances, and it excited many derisive comments: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at ease, observing a spear of summer grass. That Walt was... | |
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I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you, I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at,fhy ease observing a spear of summer grass. 
