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" I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a... "
The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review - Page 21
1889
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Studying the Major Subjects

Claude C. Crawford - 1930 - 408 pages
...How to Study Illustrated through Physics. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1922. CHAPTER VI BIOLOGY "/ believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work...sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-dceuvre of the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the...
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Talking Radio: An Oral History of American Radio in the Television Age

250 pages
...Whitman, and remind us: Music: Passage behind: WHITMAN: (on filter mike) Music: Fade behind: NARRATOR: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses...
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Double, Double

Jose Yglesias - 2000 - 212 pages
...heard Gary's voice pick up the melody, rise above the murmurs in a new key. "I say it is beautiful, for I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars," he recited, and Seth saw the shadow of Gary's rising body on the ceiling. It spread its arms. "Take...
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The Buffalo Commons

Richard S. Wheeler - 2000 - 486 pages
...Whitman's that Sanford Kouric had quoted to them just as they parted in Miles City, days earlier: / believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars. CHAPTER 55 Sandy surprised Cameron one morning, asking whether she might go out to the ranch that day....
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Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality

Morton Schoolman - 2001 - 364 pages
...world from other positions. In one brief verse alone (31) in "Song of Myself," Whitman imagines that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of...perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren . . .(663-64) And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven. And the nartowest hinge...
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If the Buddha Married: Creating Enduring Relationships on a Spiritual Path

Charlotte Kasl - 2001 - 276 pages
...living an experience for the first time. This is reflected in Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars . . . And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, and the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn...
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Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert

Britta Benke - 2000 - 104 pages
...TheDarklrisNo.il. 1926 Oil on canvas. 22.9 x 17.8cm Abiquiu (NM), The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundatkw "1 believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." wrote the celebrated American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Whitman's Leaves of Grass established...
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Poetry as Survival

Gregory Orr - 2002 - 250 pages
...were ecstatic— filled with the visionary rapture of someone awed by the beauty of the natural world: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire [ant] is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren. And the tree-toad is the chef-d'oeuvre...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...Grow.'" The Talmud "[There is a] murmur that springs from the growing of grass." — Edgar Allan Poe "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." — Walt Whitman "I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass." — Richard Hovey "The trees,...
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Walt Whitman: A Study

John Addington Symonds - 1968 - 208 pages
...women he consorts with, bears comparison with things far off and rarities imagined : * I believe & leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of heaven And I could come every afternoon of my life to...
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