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. A History of Literature in America - Página 374de Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 443 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1856 - 602 páginas
...that a kelson of the Creation is love ; And limitless are leaves, stiff or drooping in the fields. A child said, what is the Grass? fetching it to me...the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name some way in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose... | |
| 1866 - 908 páginas
...worm-fence, and heaped stones, alder, mullen, sod pokeweed. "A child said, ' Wliat it the grata ?' fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer...know what it is any more than he. I guess it must bo the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven, Or I guess it is the handkerchief... | |
| 1928 - 694 páginas
...larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much ing reverence in : "A child said, what is How could I answer the child? I do not know what it...designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?" He had small patience with those who failed in... | |
| 1880 - 604 páginas
...their plated manes." Here are some strange passages from Whitman in which strange mixtures occur : "A child said, What is the grass? — fetching it...to me with full hands. How could I answer the child ? 1 do not know What it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 páginas
...And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed. IA child said Wliat is the grass ? fetching it to me with full hands ;)...child? I do not know what it is any more than he. ' > „• \.V ,„ * I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.... | |
| 1892 - 848 páginas
...philosophy, and the justness of his taste in securing witching wordeffects, in naming his book for it. " A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me...out of hopeful green stuff woven Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among... | |
| Edith Matilda Thomas - 1886 - 330 páginas
...protective, and the hurts I receive are far less painful than they used to be." GEASS: A RUMINATION. I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, That we may see and remark, and Bay, Whose... | |
| Edith Matilda Thomas - 1886 - 316 páginas
...protective, and the hurts I receive are far less painful than they used to be." GRASS: A RUMINATION. I gueaa it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, That we may see and remark, and say, Whose... | |
| James Wood Davidson - 1888 - 188 páginas
...undisguised and naked ; I am mad for it to be in contact with me." " A child once said, What is the grass f fetching it to me with full hands ; How could I answer...designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say, Whose ? " Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 páginas
...Convict no more, nor shame, nor dole ! Depart — a God-enfranchis' d soul ! The Singer in the Prison. A child said What is the Grass ? fetching it to me...guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hooeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer... | |
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