 I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with...  Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays - Seite 162herausgegeben von - 2007 - 504 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | 1875 - 80 Seiten
...condition ; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins ; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth ;" and the Bowery Transcendentalist sang her creed... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 Seiten
...for their sin3 ; They do not make mo sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things...respectable or industrious over the whole earth." Wise men have long been, and are likely to be, content to learn from the bee and the ant ; but neither... | |
 | 1876 - 844 Seiten
...for their sins ; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God ; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things...is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. Wise men have long been, and are likely to be, content to learn from the bee and the ant ; but neither... | |
 | Walter Lewin - 1879 - 252 Seiten
...for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied—not one is demented with the mania of owning things ;...respectable or industrious over the whole earth." Note the peculiar echo of the saying of One Other : " Consider the lilies of the field how they grow... | |
 | 1928 - 692 Seiten
...weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Xot one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." Democracy was a passion with him: "By God ! I will accept nothing which... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 Seiten
...weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 Seiten
...so placid and self-contain'd : . I stand and look at them long and long. Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things : Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth." The Whitman method of reaching naivete is here... | |
 | 1884 - 928 Seiten
...are so placid and self contained I stand and look at them long and long ; Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented With the mania of owning things, Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.' The Whitman method of reaching naivete" is here... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 268 Seiten
...weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they shew their relations to me aud I accept them, They bring me tokens... | |
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