The Writings of John Burroughs: Whitman: a studyHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1896 |
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... beautiful poem , the most intelligible , the most agreeable to read , the most complete in every respect , the Eneid , the Gerusalemme , a fine tragedy . To - day something else is wanted . For us the greatest poet is he who in his ...
... beautiful poem , the most intelligible , the most agreeable to read , the most complete in every respect , the Eneid , the Gerusalemme , a fine tragedy . To - day something else is wanted . For us the greatest poet is he who in his ...
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... beautiful as the sky ! Under the head Beautiful that war , and all its deeds of carnage , must in time be utterly lost ! That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly , softly wash again , and ever again , this soil'd world ...
... beautiful as the sky ! Under the head Beautiful that war , and all its deeds of carnage , must in time be utterly lost ! That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly , softly wash again , and ever again , this soil'd world ...
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... beautiful . There was no breaking - down of the features , or the least sign of decrepitude , such as we usually note in old men . The expression was full of pathos , but it was as grand as that of a god . I could not think of him as ...
... beautiful . There was no breaking - down of the features , or the least sign of decrepitude , such as we usually note in old men . The expression was full of pathos , but it was as grand as that of a god . I could not think of him as ...
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... beautiful , curious , breathing , laughing flesh is enough , I do not ask any more delight ; I swim in it , as in a sea . There is some- thing in staying close to men and women and look- ing on them , and in the contact and odor of them ...
... beautiful , curious , breathing , laughing flesh is enough , I do not ask any more delight ; I swim in it , as in a sea . There is some- thing in staying close to men and women and look- ing on them , and in the contact and odor of them ...
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... beautiful and vigorous of the gang , - You would wish long and long to be with him you would wish to sit by him in the boat , that you and he might touch each other . " All the motifs of his work are the near , the vital , the universal ...
... beautiful and vigorous of the gang , - You would wish long and long to be with him you would wish to sit by him in the boat , that you and he might touch each other . " All the motifs of his work are the near , the vital , the universal ...
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æsthetic aims American artistic beautiful beauty disease beget body breath bring called candor character charity cism common conventional cosmic cracy critic culture death democracy democratic divine earth egoism egotism elements Emerson emotion equal evil eyes face faith feel flowers formal art give Goethe Gosse hand heroic heroic nudity human ideal ideas impression John Addington Symonds Leaves of Grass less literary literature lives look man's manly matter meaning ment mind modern mother nature never open air passion personality pietism poems poet poet's poetic poetry pride prophetic qualities race reader real things reality refinement religion religious savage says seems sense Shakespeare social social equality soldiers soul speaks spirit stand suggestion sweet taste Tennyson thought tion traits triumph ture uncon universal utterance verse vital voice Walt Whitman Whit whole words wounded writing
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Página 47 - 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. From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
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Página 60 - Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul; Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it ! 14 Whoever you are, to you endless announcements ! Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
Página 138 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers ; the composition of...