 Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.  An American Bible - Page 131edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1910 - 530 pages
...if by their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prated be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1910 - 360 pages
...Yard Bloom'd," will live in our literature. One drinks in peace with every word of lines like these : "Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate round the...to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate Death. Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?... | |
 | Carleton Eldredge Noyes - 1910 - 262 pages
...praise of death. Here truth and beauty blend in a paean of exaltation, and from the summit he calls, — Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate deaths— Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,... | |
 | 1910 - 560 pages
...stand"? Whitman sets forth the matter lucidly in his "Death Carol," beginning as follows: "Praised be the fathomless universe; For life and Joy; and...love; sweet love. But praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwlnding arms of cool-enfolding Death!" The question of a future life is one which occurs and... | |
 | 1910 - 332 pages
...to comfort and to bless, And with beauty overlighting the rough wilderness. WALT WHITMAN DEATH CAROL Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious; And for... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1911 - 446 pages
...the Dooryard Bloom'd." /~*OME lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arrmng, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each,...curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise ! praise I praise ! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with... | |
 | David B. Oliver - 1987 - 224 pages
...near the close of his poem expressing his grief over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln: Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for object and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love— but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 pages
...is celebrated as a release from the fallen world and the "fathomless universe" evoked in the poem: Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate round the...curious; And for love, sweet love — But praise! O praise and praise, For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death. (Sequel, p. 9) death. In... | |
 | Virginia Sloyan - 1990 - 172 pages
...made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. COME lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Walt Whitman Nineteenth century Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects... | |
 | G. Peter Fleck - 1989 - 228 pages
...believe Heavenly Death provides for all.6 187 And again: Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate around the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day,...the night, to all, to each Sooner or later, delicate death.7 He, too, made his peace with death and in doing so he made his peace with life. With life in... | |
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