I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or... An American Bible - Page 127edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 pages
...enough ; If no other in the world be aware, I sit content; And if each and all be aware, I sit content. One world is aware, and by far the largest to me,...own to-day, or in ten thousand or ten million years, 2°° I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. My foothold is tenon'd and... | |
| Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Walt Whitman - 1918 - 300 pages
...enough; If no other in the world be aware I sit content; And if each one and all be aware, I sit content. "One world is aware, and by far the largest to me,...own to-day, or in ten thousand or ten million years, 1 can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. "My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 pages
...finely successful — as in his stanzas on the poet, or on himself, "the divine average," for example: My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite; I...call dissolution; And I know the amplitude of time. To the hostile critic he offered an abundance of lines for unfriendly quotation, as almost every prolific... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 528 pages
...his stanzas on the poet, or on himself, "the divine average," for example: My foothold is tenon 'd and mortis'd in granite ; I laugh at what you call dissolution ; And I know the amplitude of time. To the hostile critic he offered an abundance of lines for unfriendly quotation, as almost every prolific... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 pages
...enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. 21 I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and... | |
| Elizabeth Leavitt Keller - 1921 - 262 pages
...profit by it. II WALT WHITMAN'S HOME "And whether I come into my own to-day or in ten thousand or in ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now or with equal cheerfulness I can wait." — WALT WHITMAN. "I only thought if I didn't go, who would?" — MARY O. DAVIS. AFTER physical disability... | |
| Ralph Waldo Trine - 1921 - 142 pages
...that couplet of Whitman has been with me all afternoon — and what added meaning it takes on here: "I laugh at what you call dissolution And I know the amplitude of time." The afternoon is coming to its close. The days are shorter here in the Basin, because the trees are... | |
| John Burroughs - 1922 - 318 pages
...his greatness. Whitman had the same faith in himself that Kepler had in his work. Whitman said : " Whether I come to my own to-day, or in ten thousand,...take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait." Kepler said: "The die is cast; the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity. I care not... | |
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