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
| Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. (LG, 47-48) Like Olson, Whitman reinstates the body to a central position, acknowledging and honoring... | |
| Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis' d in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. (LG, 47-48) Like Olson, Whitman reinstates the body to a central position, acknowledging and honoring... | |
| Milton Hindus - 180 pages
...sustained Whitman, and it seems to me audible in the accentuation of every syllable in such lines as: My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. The meanings of the words culture and literature themselves are ambiguous enough to have made them... | |
| Frank H. Brooks - 1994 - 350 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 that is myself. With Walt one of his most constant and sublime thoughts was his unity and identity, one might almost... | |
| Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 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... | |
| Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 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,...call dissolution; And I know the amplitude of time. I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I am an encloser of things to be. My feet strike an apex of... | |
| Elizabeth Towne - 1996 - 184 pages
...I sit content. And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the larger to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my...call dissolution. And I know the amplitude of time. —Walt Whitman. A Look at Heredity. No evolutionist can overlook heredity, nor underestimate it. He... | |
| Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, 415 And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and...wait. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, 420 I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. 21 I am the poet of the... | |
| Michael W. Fox - 1996 - 334 pages
...influenced by Hindu philosophy, captured the essence of reincarnation in the following words from Song of Myself : • And whether I come to my own today or...take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait . . . And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself... | |
| Mary Savigny - 1997 - 148 pages
...DEMOCRATIC IDEALS OF WALT WHITMAN HORACE TRAUBEL AND FLORA M.ACDONALD "MY FOOTHOLD IS TENON'D AND MORTISED IN GRANITE I LAUGH AT WHAT YOU CALL DISSOLUTION AND I KNOW THE AMPLITUDE OF TIME" Flora under the "P". Merrill with small girl on his lap, 1919. canoes. Placing their hands on the Rock,... | |
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