 | 1856 - 602 pàgines
...his title page, figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume ; For...at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such is the starting point of this most eccentric and republican of poets ; of whom the republican... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 pàgines
...ceaseless, to vivify all. 4In the Year 80 of the States,* My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born...parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-six years old, in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in... | |
 | 1881 - 1008 pàgines
...sang the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every...ease • • • observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pàgines
...own personal environment; (2) the ego that sees with himself innumerable counterpart identities, " I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume...For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to yon ;" and (3) in all personality the egotism which is a part of God, the transcendental ego, where... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pàgines
...me. SONG OF MYSELF. II CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, \ I And what I assume you shall assume, j V For. every atom belonging to me as good belongs to...parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 398 pàgines
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 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 pàgines
...I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul; I lean...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass— and concludes thus :— The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering.... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 pàgines
...I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass — and concludes thus : — The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me — he complains of my gab and... | |
 | 1888 - 344 pàgines
...lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born...parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 556 pàgines
...the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines: — " I celebrate myself ; And what I assume you shall assume ; For...my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
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I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood,... 
