| 1856 - 602 páginas
...that a kelson of the Creation is love ; And limitless are leaves, stiff or drooping in the fields. A child said, what is the Grass? fetching it to me...? .... 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. Or I guess it is the... | |
| 1866 - 908 páginas
...worm-fence, and heaped stones, alder, mullen, sod pokeweed. "A child said, ' Wliat it the grata ?' fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer...child'? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must bo the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven, Or I guess it is the... | |
| 1880 - 604 páginas
...their plated manes." Here are some strange passages from Whitman in which strange mixtures occur : "A child said, What is the grass? — fetching it...to me with full hands. How could I answer the child ? 1 do not know What it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of... | |
| 1928 - 692 páginas
...larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much ing reverence in : "A child said, what is 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. Or I guess it is the... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 páginas
...And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed. IA child said Wliat is the grass ? fetching it to me with full hands ;)...child? I do not know what it is any more than he. ' > „• \.V ,„ * I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.... | |
| 1892 - 848 páginas
...philosophy, and the justness of his taste in securing witching wordeffects, in naming his book for it. " A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me...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 Or I guess it is a... | |
| John Burroughs - 1884 - 326 páginas
...that walks with the tender and growing night ; I call to the earth and sea, half held by the night. Press close, bare-bosomed night ! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night ! Night of south winds ! night of the large, few stars ! Still, nodding night ! mad, naked, summer night ! Smile, 0 voluptuous,... | |
| James Wood Davidson - 1888 - 188 páginas
...undisguised and naked ; I am mad for it to be in contact with me." " A child once said, What is the grass f fetching it to me with full hands ; How could I answer...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. Or I guess it is... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 páginas
...Convict no more, nor shame, nor dole .' Depart — a God-enfranchis' d soul! T/ie Singer in the Prison. A child said What is the Grass? fetching it to me...child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hooeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 páginas
...Convict no more, nor shame, nor dole ! Depart — a God-enfranchis' d soul ! The Singer in the Prison. A child said What is the Grass ? fetching it to me...child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hooeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the... | |
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