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- Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (55% in)
- BOOK III Song of Myself 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Book 3 — Song of Myself (0% in)
- BOOK III Song of Myself 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Book 3 — Song of Myself (0% in)
- In vain the speeding or shyness, In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach, In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones, In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes, In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low, In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky, In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs, In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods, In vain the razor-bill'd auk...Book 3 — Song of Myself (50% in)
- He puts things in their attitudes, He puts to-day out of himself with plasticity and love, He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.Book 9 — Song of the Answerer (23% in)
- ...healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs, The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry, The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath; At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession, A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere, Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world, To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the...Book 14 — Song of the Redwood-Tree (82% in)
- 12 Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (51% in)
- Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind, He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself, He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (52% in)
- Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (60% in)
- ...dissatisfied, plotting revolt, Comrade of criminals, brother of slaves, Crafty, despised, a drudge, ignorant, With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any, Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me, Morose, full of guile, full of reminiscences, brooding, with many wiles, (Though it was thought I was baffled, and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,) Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new...Book 30 — WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH (24% in)
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