...given to her sister, Folded close under deepening snow. WALT WHITMAN CXCII THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH And that object became part of him for the day or...for many years or stretching cycles of years. The early lilacs became part of this child, The grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and...

...imitate or reflect, has greatest influence. You are familiar with the lines of Walt Whitman's poem: "There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, and received With wonder, pity, love or dread, That object he became. And that object became part of...

...forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, and received With wonder, pity, love or dread, That object he became. And that object became part of him for the day, For a certain part of the day, or for many years, Or stretching cycles of years." Every object that...

...dream. Lords of an empire wide as Shakespeare's soul, (1855) THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH WALT WHITMAN There was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part...

...the child goes forth every day into a new world and becomes part and parcel of all that he beholds. There was a child went forth every day; And the first...for many years or stretching cycles of years. The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and...

...the child goes forth every day into a new world and becomes part and parcel of all that he beholds. There was a child went forth every day; And the first...for many years or stretching cycles of years. The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and...

...next decade. Look to the boys from whom strong men are made." CHAPTER IX THE LANGUAGE OF THE FENCE "There was a child went forth every day and the first...or for many years or stretching cycles of years." — WHITMAN. The language of the fence speaks more effectively in the molding of sentiment and morals...

...thing in the universe, arrives at his conviction by the same reflection as that of Keats, telling us, There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became. Perhaps Alice Meynell has best expressed the phenomenon, in a sonnet called The Love of Narcissus:...

...most poetic expression of this identity with all things and all men is the famous poem which begins: There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part...

...intimate relation with the declaration of integrative poetic function that famously opens the poem: "There was a child went forth every day, / And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became." In poem after poem, Whitman places as the very origin of his poetry...