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... American Literature - Page 256by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1902 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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, They do... | |
| 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... | |
| John E. Grant - 1922 - 392 pages
...Problem of the Origin of War — The Factors composing the Equation "War." Walt Whitman has said : I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.... | |
| 1922 - 458 pages
...memories. In this I am in sympathy with Walt Whitman in his forceful utterance about introspection : I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
| James Mickel Williams - 1922 - 484 pages
...is not that the germ of Christianity itself?" (Ibid. 15.) Compare with this these lines of Whitman: "I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, 'I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
| 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... | |
| Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 pages
...of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. 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, They do... | |
| Carol J. Singley - 1995 - 248 pages
...1898, when she copied the following lines from Whitman's "Song of Myself into her commonplace book: I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and selfcontain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do... | |
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