 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 pages
...humor, de fantazie en het groote hart van den verteller van Tanglewood voorspelt 2). — Whitman zegt : „I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained." En hij ziet zichzelf schreeuwende en met langzamen vleugelslag als een van een schaar van duizenden... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - 1920 - 202 pages
...paw is in the snare: Little one! Oh, little one ! I am searching everywhere! JAMES STEPHENS. ANIMALS I THINK I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition... | |
 | Gladys Turquet-Milnes - 1921 - 340 pages
...laughs at our set ideas of morality. But it must be admitted that she is superior to the American. "I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and selfcontained." Doubtless, but if we substitute for animals the fatalistic Orientals with their land of wondrous dreams,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 pages
...sails far north to Labrador, I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the clifr 32 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 888 pages
...and against all odds ! Can you forgive us now? — Your fallen Gods? SONG OF MYSELF WALT WHITMAN From Leaves of Grass I think I could turn and live with...placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them sometimes an hour at a stretch. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 890 pages
...the heart of God Wm. Vaughn Moody ... 238 It fortifies my soul to know Arthur Hugh C lough ... 190 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained Walt Whitman 269 I think that I shall never see Joyce Kilmer 253 I, thy servant, full of sighs, cry... | |
 | Bruce Weirick - 1924 - 270 pages
...charmed Rousseau; and Wordsworth perhaps would have enjoyed "I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long," as an example of "wise passivity." But I doubt if Wordsworth would have abandoned himself entirely... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1925 - 490 pages
...Sucked by gravity Against immensity, Walled by diversity, Roofed by infinity. THE BEASTS BY WALT WHITMAN I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd; 1 stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition... | |
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I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with... 
