 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 - 1898 - 322 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...myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue. 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 pages
...the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me ; The first I graft upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue....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... | |
 | Frances Swiney - 1899 - 336 pages
...greatest diversity of results. In our present state of limited knowledge no man can define the 1 " 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."... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1900 - 554 pages
...dissolution ; And I know the amplitude of time. 21 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 ; 420 And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1900 - 548 pages
...the poet of the Body ; And I am the poet of the Soul. The pleasures of heaven are with me, and th? pains of hell are with me ; The first I graft and...myself — the latter I translate into a new tongue. . .. . n. am the poet of the wj^man the same as the man ; I And I say it is as great to be a woman... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1902 - 940 pages
...dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. 21 i 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...tongue. •, I am the poet of the woman the same as the 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... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 506 pages
...darkness." And in the chant " Walt Whitman " : " I am the poet of the Body ; And I am poet of the Soul." " The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains...myself — the latter I translate into a new tongue." But five years later comes a contrasting strain : " As I weud to the shores I know not, As I list to... | |
 | Mila Tupper Maynard - 1902 - 160 pages
...specific terms, as he does, but perhaps he could not be too definite on that point at the time he wrote : 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. No... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1902 - 380 pages
...with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself — the latter I translate into a new tongue. 111. 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. 112.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 pages
...mankind ; and his broad spirit of democracy recognized no inferiority of sex. Hence he exclaims: — "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. "... | |
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