Thus in silence in dreams' projections, Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals, The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young, Some suffer so much, I recall the experience... The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman - Seite 10von Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Walt Whitman - 1918 - 241 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Cheltenham College - 1868 - 412 Seiten
...sad,' mixed with the peaceful remembrance that the good work is not all unheeded on earth, since ' Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.' Here it will well be seen that we are in the thick of the war and the hospitals. The next poem relates... | |
| Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 Seiten
...to memory ; his meeting soldiers on the street whom he had nursed and tended — " Many a spldier's loving arms about this neck have crossed and rested,...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips," — • Published by the Author : New York. walks with him through some of the hospitals, where he... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 Seiten
...resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals ; The hurt and the wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night — some...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips. A LETTER FROM CAMP. I. up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete ; And come to the... | |
| Napier Bartlett - 1874 - 652 Seiten
...could understand at least one phase of his character, that best revealed in his own unmetred lines : " I sit by the restless all the dark night ; some are...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips." Dear old Walt! He was much belabored because he would write as he would. Yet all his roughness was... | |
| Walter Lewin - 1880 - 368 Seiten
...whispering strong words of comfort to the dying, and taking last messages for loved ones at the old homes. " I sit by the restless all the dark night; some are...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips." He is familiar with all the horrors of disease, he has looked death in the face, he has borne a vicarious... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 Seiten
...Does not this make more real the closing lines of that autobiographical poem, " The WoundDresser?" — Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips. The soldier being a rebel made no difference so long as he needed loving ministrations. For instance,... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 Seiten
...Does not this make more real the closing lines of that autobiographical poem, "The WoundDresser?" — Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips. The soldier being a rebel made no difference so long as he needed loving ministrations. For instance,... | |
| William Gay - 1893 - 68 Seiten
...burning flame). . . . The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand ; I sit by the restless all night, some are so young, Some suffer so much, I recall...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Such passages indicate better than pages of eulogy the sort of man that Whitman was, and one may be... | |
| 1896 - 532 Seiten
...resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals, The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are...(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have crqss'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips). 819 GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1897 - 474 Seiten
...resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals, The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are...(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA. LONG,... | |
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