The Californian, Volume 2A. Roman, 1880 - California |
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... true American abroad , as at home , is ac- customed to gauge distances by his pocket- flask , and by the time those trusty pedometers said half way , we were contented to give the mud - stained coolies their hard - earned rest , and at ...
... true American abroad , as at home , is ac- customed to gauge distances by his pocket- flask , and by the time those trusty pedometers said half way , we were contented to give the mud - stained coolies their hard - earned rest , and at ...
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... True ; but I am not strong enough to stand the rush and scurry of station meals , nor the probability of fricasseed cockroaches ; so I see no alternative , " answered Agnes , beckoning to Rufus , who cleared away and " washed up " daily ...
... True ; but I am not strong enough to stand the rush and scurry of station meals , nor the probability of fricasseed cockroaches ; so I see no alternative , " answered Agnes , beckoning to Rufus , who cleared away and " washed up " daily ...
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... True , Whitman finds music in the sounds of humble toil , and sees beauties among the lowly scenes of life , whether in olden homes or in the wilds of the West . Is it because he so fre- quently sings of these that he is said to ...
... True , Whitman finds music in the sounds of humble toil , and sees beauties among the lowly scenes of life , whether in olden homes or in the wilds of the West . Is it because he so fre- quently sings of these that he is said to ...
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... true that " all Mr. Whit- man's work , from beginning to end , is abso- lutely without art ? " The writer of this asser- tion was , as we have shown , thinking of the clothes of poetry . Whitman neither rhymes nor cuts his lines by the ...
... true that " all Mr. Whit- man's work , from beginning to end , is abso- lutely without art ? " The writer of this asser- tion was , as we have shown , thinking of the clothes of poetry . Whitman neither rhymes nor cuts his lines by the ...
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... true poet moves in a bee - line ; and perhaps the grand cause of its enchaining power is the rapidity with which it acts upon the feelings . While it points to some one cen- tral truth of exceeding beauty , its magic hand beckons into ...
... true poet moves in a bee - line ; and perhaps the grand cause of its enchaining power is the rapidity with which it acts upon the feelings . While it points to some one cen- tral truth of exceeding beauty , its magic hand beckons into ...
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Page 174 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls,...
Page 386 - Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you are the mothers
Page 386 - 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 43 - I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not...
Page 40 - The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless, It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it, I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked, I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
Page 43 - Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak, And went where he sat on a log and led him in and assured him, And brought water and...
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Page 42 - Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed, ,Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish. Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose, But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whispering, counseling, cautioning. Liberty, let others despair of you— I never despair of you. Is the house shut? is the master away? Nevertheless, be ready, be not weary of watching, He will soon return, his messengers come...
Page 196 - O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream. The merry homes of England! Around their hearths by night What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light! There woman's voice flows forth in song Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old.
Page 41 - 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.