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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... spirit of God is the brother of my own , And that all the men ever born are also my brothers , and the women my sisters and lovers , And that a kelson of the creation is love , And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields ...
... spirit of God is the brother of my own , And that all the men ever born are also my brothers , and the women my sisters and lovers , And that a kelson of the creation is love , And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields ...
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... spirit in which they are won . I beat and pound for the dead , I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them . Vivas to those who have fail'd ! And to those whose war - vessels sank in the sea ! And to those themselves ...
... spirit in which they are won . I beat and pound for the dead , I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them . Vivas to those who have fail'd ! And to those whose war - vessels sank in the sea ! And to those themselves ...
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... spirit to vindicate itself or be understood , I see that the elementary laws never apologize , ( I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by , after all . ) I exist as I am , that is enough , If no other in the world ...
... spirit to vindicate itself or be understood , I see that the elementary laws never apologize , ( I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by , after all . ) I exist as I am , that is enough , If no other in the world ...
Page 70
... spirit arouses me , Looking forth on pavement and land , or outside of pavement and land , Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits . One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges ...
... spirit arouses me , Looking forth on pavement and land , or outside of pavement and land , Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits . One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges ...
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... spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs , and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them , shall we be fill'd and satisfied then ? And my spirit said No , we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond . You are ...
... spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs , and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them , shall we be fill'd and satisfied then ? And my spirit said No , we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond . You are ...
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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.