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- It contains such notable lines as "I am large, I contain multitudes" and "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, / If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles."
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I Hear It Was Charged Against Me. The Prairie-Grass Dividing. When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame. We Two Boys Together Clinging. A Promise to California. Here the Frailest Leaves of Me. No Labor-Saving Machine. A Glimpse.
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By some fortunate conversion of mysticism, talent, and singular vision of humanity, in 1855, Walt Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass, a slim volume consisting of twelve untitled poems and a preface. He designed the cover, and typeset and paid for the printing of the book himself.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on, Ever and ever.
Enjoy 25 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass quotes pulled from his original 1855 1st edition text---lines that are as fresh and powerful today as then.
Leaves of Grass (1855) "I Celebrate Myself," "Come Closer to Me," "To Think of Time . . . . To Think Through". "I Wander All Night in My Vision," "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth". "Sauntering the Pavement or Riding the Country". "A Young Man Came to Me With".
Leaves of Grass (1871-72) Inscriptions. One's-Self I Sing. As I Ponder'd in Silence. In Cabin'd Ships at Sea. To Foreign Lands. To a Historian. For Him I Sing.
Flesch-Kincaid Level: 13. Approx. Reading Time: 10 hours and 8 minutes. Poetry. Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman. Perhaps the quintessential book of American verse, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass embraces and encapsulates the lives and landscapes of a young nation.
