States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads With the waiting depot... The Writings of John Burroughs - Seite 52von John Burroughs - 1904Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Cleo McNelly Kearns - 1987 - 312 Seiten
...of life, (for well dear brother I know, If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.) Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...black. With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil 'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With... | |
| Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 Seiten
...the poet envisions the states, personified as crapeveiled women, united in mourning Lincoln's death: With the pomp of the inloop'd flags, with the cities...black, With the show of the States themselves, as of crape -veil 'd women, standing, With processions long and winding, and the flambeaus of the night,... | |
| Sam Staggs - 1992 - 324 Seiten
...powerful western fallen star! O shades of light — O moody, tearful night!" The words thrilled her. "Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...and night with the great cloud darkening the land ..." She often read Whitman for relaxation. The rhythm of his long lines of free verse lulled and stimulated... | |
| Stanley J. Scott - 1991 - 334 Seiten
...orchards, Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, Night and day journeys a coffin. 6 Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...black, With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1993 - 150 Seiten
...the orchards, Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, Night and day journeys a coffin. Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...black, With the show of the States themselves as of crapeveil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With... | |
| Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 Seiten
...orchards, Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, Night and day journeys a coffin. VI Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...black, With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With... | |
| Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 Seiten
...symbols into a sustained threnody, the poet breaks off a sprig of lilac and lays it on Lincoln's coffin. Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...black, With the show of the States themselves as of crepe-veil'd women, standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With... | |
| Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 Seiten
...the orchards, Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, Night and day journeys a coffin. Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...black, With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With... | |
| Harvey Seymour Gross, Robert McDowell - 1996 - 362 Seiten
...Whitman uses various and intricate forms of parallel techniques. We find numerous passages in anaphora: Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...black, With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With... | |
| Various - 1996 - 496 Seiten
...the orchards, Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, Night and day journeys a coffin. Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through...and night with the great cloud darkening the land, 35 With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities draped in black, With the show of the States... | |
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