| Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 Seiten
...same style, for I am their friend, I love them quits and quits — I do not halt and make salaams. I lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things,...; They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen. I cannot say to any person what I hear — I cannot say it to myself — it is very wonderful. It is... | |
| 1870 - 586 Seiten
...zones of eternal peace and poetry. What says your poet of his state there ? THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE. 39 I lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things...: They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen. His companions are yours : hear again ! Wild flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones,... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 Seiten
...same style, for I am their friend, I love them quits and quits — I do not halt, and make salaams. I lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things,...; They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen. I cannot say to any person what I hear — I cannot say it to myself — it is very wonderful. It is... | |
| John Burroughs - 1877 - 278 Seiten
...tell ? Well may Tennyson speak of the " fairy tales of science," and well may Walt Whitman say, — "I lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things,...They are so beautiful, I nudge myself to listen." But making all due acknowledgments to science, there is one danger attending it that the poet can alone... | |
| John Burroughs - 1877 - 276 Seiten
...Tennyson speak of the " fairy tales of science," and well may Walt Whitman say, — "I lie abstracted, ami hear beautiful tales of things, and the reasons of...They are so beautiful, I nudge myself to listen." But making all due acknowledgments to science, there is one danger attending it that the poet can alone... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 Seiten
...same style, for I am their friend, I love them quits and quits — I do not halt, and make salaams. I lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things,...; They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen. I cannot say to any person what I hear — I cannot say it to myself — it is very wonderful. It is... | |
| John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 Seiten
...tell? Well may Tennyson speak of the " fairy tales of science," and well may Walt Whitman say— " I lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things,...They are so beautiful, I nudge myself to listen." But making all due acknowledgments to science, there is one danger attending it that the poet can alone... | |
| 1892 - 222 Seiten
...at, where I cast them! To pass on (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind. ******* 1 lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things,...things; They are so beautiful, I nudge myself to listen. I cannot say to any person what I hear- — I cannot say it to myself — it is very wonderful. It... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - 1893 - 856 Seiten
...the same style, for I am their friend , I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams. I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things...things, They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen. * * * * * The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good. ***** It seems to me that... | |
| John Vance Cheney - 1895 - 466 Seiten
...same style, for I am their friend, I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams." " I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things...things, They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen." " The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good." " It seems to me that everything... | |
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