Walt WhitmanSwan, Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 132 páginas |
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... whole future . As Wordsworth found " beauty born of mur- muring sound " passing into Lucy's face , so does Whitman discover " persons , substances , beasts , the trees , the running rivers , the rocks and sands " all contributing their ...
... whole future . As Wordsworth found " beauty born of mur- muring sound " passing into Lucy's face , so does Whitman discover " persons , substances , beasts , the trees , the running rivers , the rocks and sands " all contributing their ...
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... whole the peasant - poet , Burns , born of the people and living among them all his life , is still the British democratic bard . " Deep in the general heart of men His power survives . " And that mighty influence of the Ayrshire plough ...
... whole the peasant - poet , Burns , born of the people and living among them all his life , is still the British democratic bard . " Deep in the general heart of men His power survives . " And that mighty influence of the Ayrshire plough ...
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... whole form sur- rounded with manliness as with a nimbus , and breath- ing , in its perfect health and vigour , the august charm of the strong . " " 1 " The Good Gray Poet , " Bucke , p . 99 . In 1880 Dr. Bucke describes the poet , who ...
... whole form sur- rounded with manliness as with a nimbus , and breath- ing , in its perfect health and vigour , the august charm of the strong . " " 1 " The Good Gray Poet , " Bucke , p . 99 . In 1880 Dr. Bucke describes the poet , who ...
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... whole . He sat quite erect in a great cane - runged chair , cross - legged , and clad in rough gray clothes , with slippers on his feet , and a shirt of pure white linen with a great wide collar , edged with white lace , the shirt ...
... whole . He sat quite erect in a great cane - runged chair , cross - legged , and clad in rough gray clothes , with slippers on his feet , and a shirt of pure white linen with a great wide collar , edged with white lace , the shirt ...
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... whole face impresses one with a sense of resoluteness , strength , and intel- lectual power , and yet withal , a winning sweetness , un conquerable radiance , and hopeful joyousness . ' " 1 1 Notes of Visit to Walt Whitman , by J ...
... whole face impresses one with a sense of resoluteness , strength , and intel- lectual power , and yet withal , a winning sweetness , un conquerable radiance , and hopeful joyousness . ' " 1 1 Notes of Visit to Walt Whitman , by J ...
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Página 23 - I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States.
Página 42 - With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys, And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
Página 71 - But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain, or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being.
Página 24 - The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism. In fashionable life, flippancy, tepid amours, weak infidelism, small aims, or no aims at all, only to kill time. In business, (this all-devouring modern word, business,) the one sole object is, by any means, pecuniary gain. The magician's serpent in the fable ate up all the other serpents; and money-making is our magician's serpent, remaining to-day sole master of the field.
Página 58 - Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset— earth of the mountains mistytopt! 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.
Página 71 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Página 25 - Texas, California, Alaska, and reach north for Canada and south for Cuba. It is as if we were somehow being endow'd with a vast and more and more thoroughly-appointed body, and then left with little or no soul.
Página 109 - Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms, Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me...
Página 59 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Página 71 - It creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.