Both Uses of
dulcet
in
Leaves of Grass
- To a Certain Civilian Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?†
Chpt 21 *
- "] Through the soft evening air enwinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes, Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial, (Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before, Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here, Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera house, Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home, Sonnambula's innocent love, trios…†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(dulcet) pleasing and gentle to the ear