...worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing. AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems,...

...Channel, stretching blue from Dorset to Cornwall. Where he would discover life as known of the Man : " Immense in passion, pulse, and power; Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine." There were no divine laws under the roofs of man, or if there were, they were so strangled that you...

...for the muse — I say the Form complete is worthier far; The Female equally with the male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power. Cheerful...— for freest action form'd, under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing. THE SINGER IN THE PRISON 1 O sight of shame, and pain, and dole! O fearful thought...

...worthy for tn« Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing. AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems,...

..." One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. " Of life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action formed under laws divine, The modern man I sing." Thus construed, the so-called egotism of Whitman...

...Person ; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, . . . Of Life immense in passion, pulse and power, Cheerful...— for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing. In these two words, " self " and " democracy," is found the explanation of Whitman's...

...word En masse, mit dem die Leaves of graß anheben, aus jenem zu den Sternen aufjauchzenden Ausbruch: Of Life immense in passion, pulse and power Cheerful — for freest action form'd, under the laws divins The Modern Man I sing mit einem solchen Donnerschlag in die Welt, daß man meinen möchte, Goethe...

...for the muse — I say the Form complete is worthier far; The Female equally with the male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful...— for freest action form'd, under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing." So Walt Whitman announced to the haughty Shade of history his Epic of the new...

...Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing. As I Pondcr'd in Silence As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems,...

...worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing. It is not merely the oddness and ugliness of the language : the " En-Masse ",...