 Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids...  Birds and Poets: With Other Papers - Page 252by John Burroughs - 1877 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...me; Before 1 wa« born out of my mother generations guided me, And force* have been steadily employed to complete and delight me; Now, on this spot I stand with my robust soul." — WALT WHITMAN. -—- "The child grows up in a setting of social functions of a type higher always... | |
 | England - 1866 - 908 pages
...torpid—nothing could overlay it. For it tho nebula cohered to an orb, The long low strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids...deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, Xow I stand on this spot with my soul." "The spotted hawk swoops... | |
 | 1867 - 968 pages
...transported it in their months, and deposited it with care All forces have been steadily employ' d to complete and delight me ; Now on this spot I stand with my robust Soul." It is impossible in an extract to convey an idea of the mystic ami coarse, yet living, force which... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - Poetics - 1868 - 340 pages
...nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids...me ; Now on this spot I stand with my robust Soul. It is impossible in an extract to convey an idea of the mystic and coarse, yet living, force which... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
...that is myself ; — I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and 1 am an encloser of things to be. — AH forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and...me ; Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul." This rhodomontade would read much more effectively backwards. We don't mind throwing oat a straw for... | |
 | William Denton - Human beings - 1881 - 200 pages
...could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb. The long, slow strata were piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids...deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me; Now I stand on this spot with my soul." Look down on the hell... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids...me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul. 45 O span of youth ! ever-push'd elasticity ! 0 manhood, balanced, florid and full. My lovers suffocate... | |
 | Richard Brodhead Westbrook - Human beings - 1884 - 266 pages
...could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata were piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids...deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me : Now I stand upon this spot with my soul." We know this is called... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 pages
...nothing could overlay it, For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids...deposited it with care ; All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me : Now on this spot I stand with my robust Soul." I recall no single... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - Genius - 1886 - 230 pages
...nothing could overlay it" "For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on. Vast vegetables gave it sustenance Monstrous sauroids...deposited it with care." "All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul." There seems to... | |
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