Whitman's Ideal Democracy: And Other WritingsEverett Press, 1902 - 88 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
America anarchism appeal Arthur Thomson artistic asceticism associated attain attitude beautiful become believe body Boston brave Bristol cial civilization color companions comrades comradeship conception conventional courage daily demands desire earth economic Edward Carpenter effort England equality expression external faith Fellowship followed freedom friends give Grant Allen growth hand happy harmony heart Helena Born hope human ical individual intellectual interests labor labor movement land laws Leaves of Grass less liberty living marriage material ment mind Miriam and Helena nations nature needs never one's organization ourselves passion perhaps Pioneers poems poet political possible principle real delight realize reformers revolt scab self-realization Sex Reform Shelley simplicity social socialist society soul spirit spontaneous suffering sweet sympathy thee things Thoreau thou tion to-day trades-union truth ture tyranny universe Walden Pond walk Whit Whitman Whitman's ideal democracy woman women words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 43 - COME my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers ! .O pioneers ! For we cannot tarry here, We must march, my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers!
Seite 7 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; - not to be reckoned one character; - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear...
Seite vii - T is a brave master; Let it have scope: Follow it utterly, Hope beyond hope: High and more high It dives into noon, With wing unspent, Untold intent; But it is a god, Knows its own path And the outlets of the sky. It was never for the mean; It requireth courage stout. Souls above doubt...
Seite 12 - I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things, It is not the earth, it is not America who is so great, It is I who am great or to be great, it is You up there, or any one, It is to walk rapidly through civilizations, governments, theories, Through poems, pageants, shows, to form individuals.
Seite 4 - I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States.
Seite 4 - The depravity of the business classes of our country is not less than has been supposed, but infinitely greater. The official services of America, national, state, and municipal, in all their branches and departments, except the judiciary, are saturated in corruption, bribery, falsehood, mal-administration; and the judiciary is tainted.
Seite 9 - OF EQUALITY— as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself— as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Seite 43 - Have the elder races halted ? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas ? We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Seite 10 - It is to the development, identification, and general prevalence of that fervid comradeship (the adhesive love, at least rivaling the amative love hitherto possessing imaginative literature, if not going beyond it) that I look for the counterbalance and offset of our materialistic and vulgar American democracy and for the spiritualization thereof...
Seite 46 - Canadian - a year, a century here, and other centuries there - but always one, compact in soul, conscienceconserving, God-inculcating, inspired achievers, not only in literature, the greatest art, but achievers in all art - a new, undying order, dynasty, from age to age transmitted — a band, a class, at least as fit to cope with current years, our dangers, needs, as those who, for their times, so long, so well, in armor or in cowl, upheld and made illustrious, that far-back feudal, priestly world.