Leaves of GrassCopy is in a slip case, book has no covers. Inscribed "Transferred to the dear Graingers, in deep appreciation, from their friend Edith Simonds, April 1915, New York." |
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... future printing , if there should be any ; a copy and fac - simile , indeed , of the text of these 438 pages . The subsequent adjusting interval which is so important to form'd and launch'd work , books especially , has pass'd ; and ...
... future printing , if there should be any ; a copy and fac - simile , indeed , of the text of these 438 pages . The subsequent adjusting interval which is so important to form'd and launch'd work , books especially , has pass'd ; and ...
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... future . To thee old cause ! TO THEE OLD CAUSE . 2 Thou peerless , passionate , good cause , Thou stern , remorseless , sweet idea , › Deathless throughout the ages , races , lands , After a strange sad war , great war for thee , ( I ...
... future . To thee old cause ! TO THEE OLD CAUSE . 2 Thou peerless , passionate , good cause , Thou stern , remorseless , sweet idea , › Deathless throughout the ages , races , lands , After a strange sad war , great war for thee , ( I ...
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... future , Eidolons , eidólons , eidolons . The prophet and the bard , Shall yet maintain themselves , in higher stages yet , Shall mediate to the Modern , to Democracy , interpret yet to them , God and eidolons . And thee my soul , Joys ...
... future , Eidolons , eidólons , eidolons . The prophet and the bard , Shall yet maintain themselves , in higher stages yet , Shall mediate to the Modern , to Democracy , interpret yet to them , God and eidolons . And thee my soul , Joys ...
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... future , I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness . I am a man who , sauntering along without fully stopping , turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face , Leaving it to you to prove and define it ...
... future , I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness . I am a man who , sauntering along without fully stopping , turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face , Leaving it to you to prove and define it ...
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... future continents north and south , with the isthmus between . See , vast trackless spaces , As in a dream they change , they swiftly fill , Countless masses debouch upon them , They are now cover'd with the foremost people , arts ...
... future continents north and south , with the isthmus between . See , vast trackless spaces , As in a dream they change , they swiftly fill , Countless masses debouch upon them , They are now cover'd with the foremost people , arts ...
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Page 45 - I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time.
Page 76 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 45 - I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
Page 255 - In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.
Page 198 - Soothe! soothe! soothe! Close on its wave soothes the wave behind, And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close; But my love soothes not me, not me. Low hangs the moon, it rose late, It is lagging — OI think it is heavy with love} with love.
Page 17 - ... what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else...
Page 259 - Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines. Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song, Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe.
Page 34 - What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death...
Page 77 - Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines ! I plead for my brothers and sisters. Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death — it is form, union, plan — it is eternal life — it is Happiness.
Page 261 - From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night. The night in silence under many a star, The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know, And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.