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... Leaves of Grass - Page 261by Walt Whitman - 1897 - 455 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...love, sweet love,—but praise, praise, praise, For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death. The night in silence under many a star, The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I hear, And the soul turning to thee, O vast and well-veiled Death, And the body gratefully nestling... | |
| Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1868 - 464 pages
...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...I know ; And the soul turning to thee, O vast and well-veiled Death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...landscape, and the highspread sky, are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night. The night, in silence, under many a star ; The ocean...I know ; And the soul turning to thee, O vast and well-veiled Death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...landscape, and the highspread sky, are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night. The night, in silence, under many a star ; The ocean...I know ; And the soul turning to thee, O vast and well-veiled Death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...fields, and the huge and thoughtful night. The night, in silence, under many a st«r ; The ocean-shore, and the husky whispering wave, whose voice I know ; And the soul turning to thee, 0 vast and wellveiled Death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float... | |
| Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...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...I know ; And the soul turning to thee, O vast and wellveiled Death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee a... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1887 - 268 pages
...thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly The night in silence under many a star, The ocean...voice I know, And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 pages
...I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. The night in silence under many a star, The ocean...voice I know, And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee... | |
| Robert Green Ingersoll - Free thought - 1891 - 92 pages
...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...wave whose voice I know, And the soul turning to thee 0 vast and well-veil'd death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I... | |
| William Gay - 1893 - 68 pages
...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...whose voice I know, And the soul turning to thee, 0 vast and well-veiled death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree tops I... | |
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