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... HAND . FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY THESE I SINGING IN SPRING NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST Only 95 96 97 Of the Terrible ... HAND IN HAND A GLIMPSE A LEAF FOR EARTH MY LIKENESS I DREAM'D IN A DREAM . WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND ? TO ...
... HAND . FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY THESE I SINGING IN SPRING NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST Only 95 96 97 Of the Terrible ... HAND IN HAND A GLIMPSE A LEAF FOR EARTH MY LIKENESS I DREAM'D IN A DREAM . WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND ? TO ...
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... HAND - MIRROR Gods 213 213 GERMS THOUGHTS WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER PERFECTIONS O ME ! O LIFE ! TO A PRESIDENT I SIT AND LOOK OUT TO RICH GIVERS THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES ROAMING IN THOUGHT . A FARM PICTURE A CHILD'S AMAZE ...
... HAND - MIRROR Gods 213 213 GERMS THOUGHTS WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER PERFECTIONS O ME ! O LIFE ! TO A PRESIDENT I SIT AND LOOK OUT TO RICH GIVERS THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES ROAMING IN THOUGHT . A FARM PICTURE A CHILD'S AMAZE ...
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... hand 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 morn- ing , or at noon intermission or at sundown , The ...
... hand 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 morn- ing , or at noon intermission or at sundown , The ...
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... hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing . And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only , Nor for his mate nor himself only , nor all sent back by the echoes , But subtle , clandestine , away ...
... hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing . And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only , Nor for his mate nor himself only , nor all sent back by the echoes , But subtle , clandestine , away ...
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... hands of the corpse - cleaners and pass to fitting spheres , Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death . Not the types set up by the printer ... hand ? Toward the male of the States , and toward the II.
... hands of the corpse - cleaners and pass to fitting spheres , Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death . Not the types set up by the printer ... hand ? Toward the male of the States , and toward the II.
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Page 249 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Page 28 - 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 39 - I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
Page 27 - Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex, Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
Page 43 - I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Page 254 - Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Page 117 - I inhale great draughts of space, The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine. I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.
Page 254 - Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me, And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not, Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness, To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
Page 115 - Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am goodfortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing; Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.
Page 72 - I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.