 I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.  The Southern Review - Page 3181871Full view - About this book
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains...of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. I... | |
 | Karl Knortz - 1886 - 58 pages
...that the elementary laws never apologize. — I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I craft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue." "Song of Myself" IM ersten... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...burnt stick at night. IN ALL, MYSELF. 1" AM the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, -*- The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains...of the woman the same as the man. And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. I... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 pages
...man is the token of manhood untainted. I Sing the Body Electric. Stanza 8. I sing the body electric, I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. Song... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 pages
...man is the token of manhood untainted. I Sing the Body Electric. Stanza 8. I sing the body electric, I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, • And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. Each... | |
 | William Clarke - 1892 - 162 pages
...democracy, and his ' < ultimate spiritual creed. " I am the poet of the 1xxly and I am the poet of the soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains...first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I iransl.ite into a new tongue." " Song of Myself," from Leaves t>f Grass. " Well, At looks like a MAN... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1893 - 168 pages
...material, the body, which he called hell. And Whitman announces a similar purpose in Song of Myself : " The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains...me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the ktter I translate into a new tongue." Make, it is true, was not quite sane — how could he be ? A... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 pages
...and turn it to ideal uses, draw out the spiritual meanings, then avaunt! we want nothing of him. " The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell. The former I graft and increase upon m\rself, The latter I translate into a new tongue." The vital... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 474 pages
...dissolution, / And I know the amplitude of time. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, t The f1rst I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate // into a new tongue. I j1m the... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1898 - 320 pages
...dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains...of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men. I... | |
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