 | 1856 - 602 էջ
...his title page, figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume ; For...at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such is the starting point of this most eccentric and republican of poets ; of whom the republican... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 էջ
...ceaseless, to vivify all. 4In the Year 80 of the States,* My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born...parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-six years old, in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in... | |
 | 1881 - 1008 էջ
...sang the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every...ease • • • observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
 | 1919 - 714 էջ
...own personal environment; (2) the ego that sees with himself innumerable counterpart identities, " I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume...For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to yon ;" and (3) in all personality the egotism which is a part of God, the transcendental ego, where... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 էջ
...me. SONG OF MYSELF. II CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, \ I And what I assume you shall assume, j V For. every atom belonging to me as good belongs to...parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 էջ
...I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul; I lean...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass— and concludes thus :— The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering.... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 էջ
...I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass — and concludes thus : — The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me — he complains of my gab and... | |
 | 1888 - 344 էջ
...lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born...parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 556 էջ
...the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines: — " I celebrate myself ; And what I assume you shall assume ; For...my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 էջ
...this celebration of himself is not exclusive, as of a unit merely, but one embracing the race — " I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,... | |
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