 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.  Poets of America - Σελίδα 355των Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 516 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1856 - 602 σελίδες
...poet, unnamed on his title page, figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume...at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such is the starting point of this most eccentric and republican of poets ; of whom the republican... | |
 | 1881 - 1008 σελίδες
...kneeling crowd, — the ringing story of the old-fashioned frigate and the little captain who won by the light of the moon and stars, — the proud humility,...even to rebuke of their own failure to go farther, has brought them, perchance, like Frankenstein, to regard with little complacence the strides of their... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 σελίδες
...me. SONG OF MYSELF. II CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, \ I And what I assume you shall assume, j V For. every atom belonging to me as good belongs to...loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here... | |
 | 1888 - 344 σελίδες
...topic with the parodists, here is a small extract from his SONG OF MYSELF. I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every...loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 σελίδες
...I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul; I lean...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass— and concludes thus :— The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering.... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 σελίδες
...I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass — and concludes thus : — The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me — he complains of my gab and... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1887 - 434 σελίδες
...semblance of idleness ; of all which the man himself might have given this valid justification : — "I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass." Nevertheless, these nine years of groping, blundering, and seeming idleness, were not without their... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1889 - 400 σελίδες
...boating, fishing, and riding are good; and here also the vacation-idler may say, with Walt Whitman : — " I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass." A mile or so back of the village is the charming Lake :/ Wentworth, four miles long, and endowed with... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1889 - 404 σελίδες
...boating, fishing, and riding are good ; and here also the vacation-idler may say, with Walt Whitman: — " I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer A mile or so back of the village is the charming Lake ;/ Wentworth, four miles long, and endowed with... | |
 | Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead - 1892 - 204 σελίδες
...myself, and sing myself, And what I assume, you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean...loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. #****» Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back awhile, sufficed at what they are, but never... | |
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