#Americans #XIXCentury #1855 #LeavesOfGrass
After a long, long course, hundreds of y… Accumulations, rous’d love and joy and t… Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings,… Coating, compassing, covering—after ages… Then only may these songs reach fruition…
#1855 #LeavesOfGrass
A carol closing sixty-nine—a resume—a re… My lines in joy and hope continuing on t… Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom,… Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies,… Your aggregate retain’d entire—Of north…
Not youth pertains to me, Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the t… Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer… In the learn’d coterie sitting constrain… to me,
For the lands, and for these passionate… Now I awhile return to thee, O soil of… Reclining on thy breast, giving myself t… Answering the pulses of thy sane and equ… Tuning a verse for thee.
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Natu… Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb… of irrational things, Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silen… Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriet…
Darest thou now O soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown regi… Where neither ground is for the feet nor… No map there, nor guide, Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human h…
As if a phantom caress’d me, I thought I was not alone, walking here… But the one I thought was with me, as n… one I loved, that caress’d me, As I lean and look through the glimmeri…
With its cloud of skirmishers in advance… With now the sound of a single shot snap… irregular volley, The swarming ranks press on and on, the… Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—…
O sight of shame, and pain, and dole! O fearful thought—a convict Soul! Rang the refrain along the hall, the pri… Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven a… Pouring in floods of melody in tones so…
Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my… (I tell not the fall of Alamo, Not one escaped to tell the fall of Ala… The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at A… ’Tis the tale of the murder in cold bloo…
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! O I wish I could impress others as you… have just been impressing me. 2 As I ebb’d with an ebb of the ocean… As I wended the shores I know,
1 HUSH’D be the camps to-day; And, soldiers, let us drape our war-worn… And each, with musing soul retire, to ce… Our dear commander’s death. 2 No more for him life’s stormy conflic…
The soothing sanity and blitheness of co… The pomp and hurried contest-glare and r… Now triumph! transformation! jubilate!
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good b… I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a…
Hast never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bu… wealth? These eager business aims—books, politic… To utter nothingness?
