 My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount. Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing,...  A Man - Seite 23von Minot Judson Savage - 1895 - 183 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1856 - 602 Seiten
...of death, I know I was even there. . . .1 waited unseen and always, And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist, And took my time. . . .and took no hurt from the foatid carhon." " See ever so far. . . .there is limitless space outside of that, Count ever so much.... | |
 | 1867 - 968 Seiten
...rise bow the phantoms behind me ; Afar down I see the huge first Nothing— I know I was even there j I waited unseen and always, and slept through the...time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Long I was hugg'd close — long and long. Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1868 - 340 Seiten
...call dissolution ; And I know the amplitude of time. I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I am an encloser of things to be. My feet strike an apex...time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Long I was hugg'd close — long and long. Immense have been the preparations for me, J_] Faithful and friendly... | |
 | William Denton - 1881 - 200 Seiten
...physical eyes in looking, so that his spiritual eyes are blind. Walt Whitman is right when he says : — "Afar down I see the huge first nothing; I know I...time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Long I was hugged close, — long and long. Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 Seiten
...account with lamentation, (What have I to do with lamentation ?) I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be. My feet strike...time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Long I was hugg'd close — long and long. Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly... | |
 | Richard Brodhead Westbrook - 1884 - 266 Seiten
...this world was formed. Walt Whitman has presented this theory in his usual pungent style, as follows : "Afar down I see the huge first Nothing; I know I...time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Long I was hugged close — long and long. Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 326 Seiten
...phantoms behind me ; Afar down 1 see the huge first Nothing— I know I was even there ; I waited iinseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the foetid carbon . Long I was hugged close — long and long, Immense have been the preparations for me,... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1886 - 378 Seiten
...bow the phantoms behind me ; Afar down I see the first huge nothing — I know I was even then ; " I waited unseen and always, and slept through the...took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. " Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me ; "Cycles... | |
 | Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1887 - 442 Seiten
...rise bow the phantoms behind me: I was even there; Afar down I see the huge first Nothing—I know lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid I waited unseen and always, and slept through the carbon. Long I was hugg'd close—long and long.... | |
 | 1894 - 444 Seiten
...soul. He sings in the "Song of Myself" (1855): I am an acme of things accomplished, and an incloser of things to be, My feet strike an apex of the apices...took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Whitman was not the first to interpret poetically the teachings of modern science, but in the lines... | |
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