 | United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 742 pages
...and among them all, enveloping me with the rest, Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail, And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge...middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companii 1 fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not, Down to the shores of the water,... | |
 | 1882 - 1028 pages
...ample land, these shall adorn his burial house. But over all these falls the dark cloud, And I know death, its thought. and the sacred knowledge of death....as walking one side of me, And the thought of death close-walkmg the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1980 - 436 pages
...most magnificent, in a passage of the elegy for Lincoln that also haunted Eliot in The Waste Land: Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side...forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not. To walk between the knowledge of death and the thought of death is to walk in a liminal state, to be... | |
 | Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 298 pages
..."knowledge." By personifying each of these ways of knowing as "my comrades" and by placing himself "in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions," Whitman aims to recover his archetypal role as mediator or what Grossman calls "the conjunctive term... | |
 | Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 298 pages
...and among them all, enveloping me with the rest, Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail, And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death. (CRE, pp. 333-34) In a subtle reversal of the usual platitude which holds that the trauma of loss is... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 pages
...and upon them all, enveloping me with the rest, Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail; And I knew Death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death. (Sequel, p. 8) The causal link between the vision of material prosperity and the thought and knowledge... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - 1991 - 334 pages
...and among them all, enveloping me with the rest, Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail, And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge...as walking one side of me, And the thought of death close- walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1993 - 150 pages
...and among them all, enveloping me with the rest, Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail, And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death. of me, And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions,... | |
 | Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 pages
...and among them all, enveloping me with the rest, Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail; And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge...as walking one side of me, And the thought of death close- walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands... | |
 | Russell A. Berman - 1993 - 244 pages
...in "Lilacs" that Whitman comes closest to Heine in articulating the morbidity of the social order: Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side...close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night... | |
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And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle... 
