 Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the...  A Son of the Middle Border - Page 383by Hamlin Garland - 1917 - 467 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - Authors' presentation copies - 1883 - 270 pages
...""ikprf " is t" fitr'p nffrhp swathing, suffocating folds and mental wrappings derived from civilization. Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems, means, Live with me (with my book) until my mode of thought and feeling becomes your mode of thought... | |
 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...leaves them suspended in mid-air. After he has made mincemeat of these barbaric phrases, he says : " Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems." In the phantasmagoria that follows, if the reader can discover the origin of anything, he is entitled... | |
 | Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead - Art - 1892 - 204 pages
...song of one rising from bed and meeting the sun. ****** You shall no longer take things at second hand or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - California - 1893 - 856 pages
...boy." Yes, we will take the old Mother's word lor it. Here's for you, Wale ; let us go gallivant ! Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - California - 1893 - 886 pages
...the old Mother's word ior it. Here's for you, Wale ; let us go gallivant ! Stop this day and nicht with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - American poetry - 1895 - 466 pages
...topknot" calls, your " head slues round on your neck " ; here 's for you, Walt, we will "go gallivant" ! " Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) Vou shall no longer take... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 pages
...intrinsic. He will have no curtains, he says, — not the finest, — between himself and his reader. "Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun (there are millions of suns left), You shall no longer take things... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Composers - 1897 - 474 pages
...Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems ? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1897 - 808 pages
...in mental but in emotional relations to the author. " When I give, I give myself," the poet says. " Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems." " I act as the tongue of yon." His own statement (reported in the Springfield " Republican ") is :... | |
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