 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 - Page 355by Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 pages
...That Went Forth and Always Goes Forth, Forevtr and Forever." FROM WALT WHITMAN 1 1 celebrate myself;1 And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. Houses and rooms are full of perfumes— the shelves are crowded with perfumes; I breathe the fragrance... | |
 | Walt Whitman, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, Horace Traubel - 1919 - 916 pages
...shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. 1 loafe and invite my soul, 1 lean and 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... | |
 | Charles Lewis Hind - 1920 - 354 pages
..."Excelsior" and "Enoch Arden" were poetry, but this amazing and uncouth, voluble savage, what was he? I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Clear the way there, Jonathan! I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 pages
...firm holding — to haste, haste on with me. SONG OF MYSELF I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, I And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom...loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, f orm'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...composed a rambling poem of over thirteen hundred verses named after himself, and beginning modestly: I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume;...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1923 - 572 pages
...chaotic lines) from the opening and the close of the " 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. A child said, What is the grass ? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child ?... | |
 | 1888 - 746 pages
...semblance of idleness ; of all which the man him self 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.' " And we imagine most persons regard him as throughout his life such a " lawless, unkempt genius "... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1926 - 268 pages
...Whitman calls himself an idler and even a loafer : and almost the first words of the Song of Myself are I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Has any poet ever said anything which is in spirit more entirely Wordsworthian than this confession?... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1926 - 242 pages
...Whitman calls himself an idler and even a loafer : and almost the first words of the Song of Myself are I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Has any poet ever said anything which is in spirit more entirely Wordsworthian than this confession... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1928 - 504 pages
...permanence because his medium is not words but elements. FROM 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. . . . * A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?... | |
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