Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd RoadsSmall, Maynard & Company, 1897 - 455 pages |
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Page 29
... clear one's path ahead endlessly ! O something ecstatic and undemonstrable ! O music wild ! O now I triumph- and you shall also ; O hand in hand - O wholesome pleasure- -O one more desirer and lover ! O to haste firm holding — to haste ...
... clear one's path ahead endlessly ! O something ecstatic and undemonstrable ! O music wild ! O now I triumph- and you shall also ; O hand in hand - O wholesome pleasure- -O one more desirer and lover ! O to haste firm holding — to haste ...
Page 31
... Clear and sweet is my soul , and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul . Lack one lacks both , and the unseen is proved by the seen , Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn . Showing the best and dividing it from ...
... Clear and sweet is my soul , and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul . Lack one lacks both , and the unseen is proved by the seen , Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn . Showing the best and dividing it from ...
Page 35
... clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged , The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow . I am there , I help , I came stretch'd atop of the load , I felt its soft jolts , one leg reclined on the other , I jump from the ...
... clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged , The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow . I am there , I help , I came stretch'd atop of the load , I felt its soft jolts , one leg reclined on the other , I jump from the ...
Page 59
... clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty , The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them , the scenery is plain in all directions , The white - topt mountains show in the distance , I fling out my fancies toward ...
... clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty , The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them , the scenery is plain in all directions , The white - topt mountains show in the distance , I fling out my fancies toward ...
Page 60
... clear'd the beams away , they tenderly lift me forth . I lie in the night air in my red shirt , the pervading hush is for my sake , Painless after all I lie exhausted but not so unhappy , White and beautiful are the faces around me ...
... clear'd the beams away , they tenderly lift me forth . I lie in the night air in my red shirt , the pervading hush is for my sake , Painless after all I lie exhausted but not so unhappy , White and beautiful are the faces around me ...
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Page 254 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Page 28 - A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Page 1 - One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing: Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse; I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male I sing. 5 Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing.
Page 252 - Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong deliveress, When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, ; Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.
Page 254 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port" is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 27 - Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex, Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
Page 247 - Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.
Page 249 - 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...
Page 38 - Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Page 41 - I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.