 I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare-bosom'd night— press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds— night of the large few stars! Still nodding night—...  History of American Verse (1610-1897) - Seite 180von James Lawrence Onderdonk - 1901 - 395 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1871
...pride, We have had ducking and deprecating about enough, I show that size is only development. . . . ... I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea, half-held by the night. Press closer, bare-bosomed night ! press close, magnetic, nourishing night... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1877 - 278 Seiten
...emotion running all through the poems, which is now and then crested with such passages as this : — " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;...call to the earth and sea, half held by the night. "Press close, bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night ! Night of south winds !... | |
 | Thomas Stephenson Francis Battersby - 1879 - 144 Seiten
...short cake." But, true to the principles I have laid down, he is enamoured of growing out-doors. " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and the sea, half held by the night. Press close, bare-bosomed night ! magnetic, nourishing night ! Night... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 1883 - 270 Seiten
...perfectly express the physical pleasure that we feel when kissed by the warm and wandering night winds : I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare-bosom'd night — press close magnetic nourishing nightl Night... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 Seiten
...emotion running all through the poems, which is now and then crested with such passages as this : — " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night...call to the earth and sea, half held by the night. Press close, bare-bosomed night ! Press cloee, magnetic, nourishing night ! Night of south winds !... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 Seiten
..."Walt Whitman"* again, one of the firstpublished poems, we have such a lyric outburst as this :— I am he that walks with the tender and growing night; I call to the earth and sea, half-held by the night. Press close, bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night! Night... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 Seiten
..."Walt Whitman"* again, one of the firstpublished poems, we have such a lyric outburst as this : — I am he that walks with the tender and growing night ; I call to the earth and sea, half-held by the night. Press close, bare-bosom'd night ! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night !... | |
 | Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1887 - 442 Seiten
...instance, to the penetrating sweetness, set in the midst of rugged grandeur, of the passage beginning— " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;...call to the earth and sea half held by the night." I see that no counting of syllables will reveal the mechanism of the music; and that this rushing spontaneity... | |
 | 1889 - 532 Seiten
...overcome heroes! And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known ! — Ibid. NIGHT. I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare-bosom'd night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 Seiten
...there is really no death, All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses. Song of Myself. Stanza 6. I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare bosom'd night — press close magnetic nourishing night !... | |
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