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The following preface by Walt Whitman was published alongside the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.. AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature ...
Preface. 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,
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- INSCRIPTIONS. One’s-Self I Sing. One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing.
- Starting from Paumanok. 1 Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring, Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess, Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy, Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara, Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull, Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze, Having studied the mocking-bird’s tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk, And heard at dawn the unrivall’d one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
- Song of Myself. 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
- CHILDREN OF ADAM. To the Garden the World. To the garden the world anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous, Existing I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present, content with the past, By my side or back of me Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.
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- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Leaves of Grass
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Back in Brooklyn, Whitman founded the Brooklyn Freeman newspaper and wrote poetry. On the 4th of July in 1855, Whitman self-published his first edition of Leaves of Grass, a volume of twelve poems and a preface. In writing, Whitman adapted the form of the epic, constructing it by connecting lyric poems; the long, narrative lines in “Song of ...
PREFACE NOTE TO 2d ANNEX, CONCLUDING L. OF G.—1891. H ad I not better withhold (in this old age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like ...
Jun 2, 2013 · PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" PREFACE, 1855 To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y. PREFACE, 1872 To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with . PREFACE, 1876 To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass . A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE . DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN LECTURE . TWO LETTERS . NOTES LEFT OVER . APPENDIX
