...arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and...objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise ! praise ! praise ! For the sure-en winding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark...

...whatever I see, or hear, or touch, to the last !" And also this in Whitman's "Hymn to Death" : "Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and...objects and knowledge curious; And for love, sweet love — But praise ! O, praise and praise, For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death." And...

...if by their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come, lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother,...

...soul turning to thee, O vast and well-veiled Death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Come, lovely and soothing Death : Undulate round the...to all, to each, Sooner or later : delicate Death ! Dark Mother, always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a song of fullest welcome...

...bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you, O sane and sacred death. . . .) Come, lovely and soothing Death ; Undulate round the...objects and knowledge curious ; And for love, sweet love. But praise ! O praise and praise, For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death. Dark Mother,...

...Lincoln. A few stanzas from the elegy will illustrate: Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate ror,id the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day,...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for...

...if by their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for...

...like it, we cannot help that. And then we face round, and ask simply whether this is not poetry? — Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate round the...objects and knowledge curious; And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of coolenfolding Death. Dark Mother!...

...rapt me, As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night, Come lovely and soothing death, 135 Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, 140 And...

...219-20 (1623). Repr. in The Complete Works of lohn Webster, ed. FL Lucas (1927). See Swift on books. 54 Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. WALT WHITMAN, (1819-1892) US poet. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed," st. 14(1881). 55 Against...