 I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.  Secrets of the Stars - Seite 242von Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1922 - 273 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Walt Whitman - 1918 - 300 Seiten
...scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems. And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cypher, edge but the rim of the farther systems. "Wider and...they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward, and outward, and for ever outward. "My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels, He joins with... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1919 - 242 Seiten
...that winning poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. One quotation, from the first of these, must suffice : — I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled...wider they spread, expanding, always expanding Outward and outward and for ever outward. There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage. If I, you, and the... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1919 - 360 Seiten
...on the shore, the plains, the mountain-tops. There is no direct savor of science in this passage:— "I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled...they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. "My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels, He joins with... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1920 - 352 Seiten
...but level that lift to pass and continue beyond." Is there not more than astronomy in these passages? "I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems. And all I can see multiplied as high as I can cypher edges but the rim of the farther system. Wider and wider... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 Seiten
...itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself, And the dark hush promulges as much as any. I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled...they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and for ever outward. My sun has his sun and around him obediently wheels, He joins with... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1922 - 318 Seiten
...and many others are merely beautiful. These lines from Whitman give one the emotion of the sublime : "I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled...they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. "My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels, He joins with... | |
 | Henry Neumann - 1923 - 418 Seiten
...the boundless extent of the stars: "All I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the limit of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding always expanding, outward and outward and forever outward." The more sublime reality is the perfect life unbeheld of the bodily... | |
 | William Rose Benét - 1925 - 576 Seiten
...in Lowell that would actually have enjoyed it. But Lowell had been well brought up. FROM "INFINITY"* I OPEN my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled...they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels, He joins with... | |
 | Conrad Aiken - 1929 - 392 Seiten
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