 | Milton Hindus - 1997 - 308 pages
...together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep.) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of...orb, Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone. These flowing epic lines are the counterpart in English of Homer's * The opening lines of the Sapphic... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - 1997 - 180 pages
...self-understanding: "As I saw you had something to tell, as you bent to me night after night, / ... As I watched where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black...orb, / Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone" (LG Var II, 532). The end of historical "continuity" with the past (weighted down with the incubus... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...star, recalling how he walk'd in silence the transparent shadowy night . . . As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of...orb, Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone. Here "transparent night" does not assert the overcoming of darkness into visibility, but rather has... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1999 - 568 pages
...not what, kept me from sleep); As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west, ere you went, how full you were of woe; As I stood on the rising...orb, Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone. 9 Sing on, there in the swamp! 0 singer bashful and tender! I hear your notes— I hear your call;... | |
 | Kevin Kelly, Christine Berg - 1999 - 136 pages
...to make of the message that he now recognizes as one predicting grief: "As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe." Whitman is "lost in the netherward black of the night," and does not interpret the message at the time... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of...orb, Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone. 9 Sing on there in the swamp, 0 singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call, I hear,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2003 - 255 pages
...together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of...As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the J2 2:18 AM Page 134 As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb, Concluded, dropt... | |
 | Amit Chaudhuri - 2003 - 246 pages
...together the solemn night (for something I know not what kept me from sleep), As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe. As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of night, As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of...orb, Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone. [sec. 8; W, 461] This list marks a series of moments, each chronicled in a separate line, that traces... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2003 - 612 pages
...together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of...orb, Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone. Sing on there in the swamp, 0 singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call, 1 hear,... | |
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As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe, As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night... 
