OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES OF THE terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,... German American Annals - Page 711906Full view - About this book
| Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1868 - 464 pages
...! O longings irrepressible ! OI will go back to old Tennessee, and never wander more ! APPEARANCES. the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty...beautiful fable only, May-be the things I perceive — the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, The skies of day and night — colours,... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs. OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES. OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all, that we may' l/e Vieluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity beyond... | |
| Frank Walters - 1889 - 198 pages
...nature. The world was no longer a delusion.' And a great American poet has the same thought : — Ol the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty,...identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only. To me, these, and the like of these, are curiously answered by my lovers, my dear friends ; When he... | |
| Oscar Lovell Triggs - Democracy - 1893 - 168 pages
...is not to be wondered at that there comes to Whitman the terrible doubt of appearances, that " The may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after...identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only.' Calamus. Even in the strong, beautiful Prayer of Columbus there is a pathetic questioning. Doubt comes... | |
| Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. h. TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Pt. XCV. St. 3. BYRON— Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 25. Battle's magnificently stern ar may-be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity... | |
| Walt Whitman - Composers - 1897 - 474 pages
...you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs. OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES. Or the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty...beautiful fable only, May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, The skies of day and night, colors, densities,... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 pages
...I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEAEANCES. Or the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty...beautiful fable only, May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, The skies of day and night, colors, densities,... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1897 - 462 pages
...that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs. OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES. OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty...may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after tall, That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only, May-be the things I perceive,... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1900 - 594 pages
...yourself, any more than in these songs. OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES First published in 1860. OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all — that we may be deluded,1 That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after ail, That may-be identity beyond... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1900 - 554 pages
...yourself, any more than in these songs. OF THE TERRIBLE DOUBT OF APPEARANCES. First published in 1860. OF the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all — that we may be deluded,1 That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity beyond... | |
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