#Americans #XIXCentury #1855 #LeavesOfGrass
Far back, related on my mother’s side, Old Salt Kossabone, I’ll tell you how… (Had been a sailor all his life—was near… grandchild, Jenny; House on a hill, with view of bay at han…
#1855 #LeavesOfGrass
Apple orchards, the trees all cover’d wi… Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vi… The eternal, exhaustless freshness of ea… The yellow, golden, transparent haze of… The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse p…
Soon shall the winter’s foil be here; Soon shall these icy ligatures unbind an… And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be i… From these dead clods and chills as from… Thine eyes, ears—all thy best attributes…
We two, how long we were fool’d, Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Na… We are Nature, long have we been absent… We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots… We are bedded in the ground, we are rock…
The untold want, by life and land ne’er… Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek…
Come, said my Soul Such verses for my Body let us write, (… That should I after death invisibly ret… Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants…
THE business man, the acquirer vast, After assiduous years, surveying results… Devises houses and lands to his children… funds for a school or hospital, Leaves money to certain companions to bu…
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida’s green peninsula! Alway… less delta of Louisiana! Always the cot… of Alabama and Texas!
A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it… Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast su… It launch’d forth filament, filament, fi… Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly spe…
How they are provided for upon the earth… How they inure to themselves as much as… appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know the… How there is something relentless in the…
I am of old and young, of the foolish as… Regardless of others, ever regardful of… Maternal as well as paternal, a child as… Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse an… One of the Nation of many nations, the…
WHAT weeping face is that looking from… Why does it stream those sorrowful tears… Is it for some burial place, vast and dr… Is it to wet the soil of graves?
The prairie-grass dividing—its special o… I demand of it the spiritual correspondi… Demand the most copious and close compan… Demand the blades to rise of words, acts… Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, su…
TO ORATISTS—to male or female, Vocalism, measure, concentration, determ… to use words. Are you full-lung’d and limber-lipp’d fr… practice? from physique?
To-day a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with its… Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves… as the eye can reach, Of dashing spray, and the winds piping a…
