#Americans #XIXCentury #1855 #LeavesOfGrass
Thee for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, t… Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual t… Thy black cylindric body, golden brass a… Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and co…
#1855 #LeavesOfGrass
Of that blithe throat of thine from arct… I’ll mind the lesson, solitary bird—let… E’en the profoundest chill, as now—a tor… Old age land-lock’d within its winter ba… These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my fro…
1 GREAT are the myths—I too delight… Great are Adam and Eve—I too look back… them; Great the risen and fallen nations, and… women, sages, inventors, rulers, warrior…
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I… Wandering amazed at my own lightness and… In the late afternoon choosing a safe sp… Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-k… Falling asleep on the gather’d leaves wi…
O sun of real peace! O Hastening light! O free and extatic! O what I here, prep… O the sun of the world will ascend, dazz… O so amazing and broad—up there resplend… O vision prophetic, stagger’d with weigh…
Behavior—fresh, native, copious, each on… Nature and the Soul expressed—America a… the finest art, In it pride, cleanliness, sympathy, to h… In it physique, intellect, faith—in it j…
I believe a leaf of grass is no less tha… And the pismire is equally perfect, and… And the tree-toad is a chef-d’oeuvre for… And the running blackberry would adorn t… And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts…
With antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accu… With all which, had it not been, I woul… With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece an… With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the A…
My science-friend, my noblest woman-frie… (Now buried in an English grave—and thi… sake,) Ended our talk—”The sum, concluding all… learning, intuitions deep,
Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, strugg… (Have former armies fail’d? then we send… Ever the grappled mystery of all earth’s… Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcom… Ever the soul dissatisfied, curious, unc…
More experiences and sights, stranger, t… Times again, now mostly just after sunri… Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn,… plain sight, Camps far or near, the crowded streets o…
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…
To get betimes in Boston town I rose th… Here’s a good place at the corner, I mu… Clear the way there Jonathan! Way for the President’s marshal—way for… Way for the Federal foot and dragoons,…
SOLID, ironical, rolling orb! Master of all, and matter of fact!—at la… terms; Bringing to practical, vulgar tests, of… dreams,
YOU just maturing youth! You male or f… Remember the organic compact of These S… Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen… life, liberty, equality of man, Remember what was promulged by the found…
