 | American fiction - 1917 - 542 pages
...religious than the ecstatic visions of Swedenborg or the tearful prayers of Augustine: — I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - American poetry - 1918 - 746 pages
...far north to Labrador; I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff. 32 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition... | |
 | Edward Gordon Craig - Theater - 1919 - 318 pages
...its wholesomeness by restoring the just value of its beautiful words. Walt Whitman sings: " I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid...and self-contained; I stand and look at them long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their... | |
 | Johan Huizinga - National characteristics, American - 1920 - 280 pages
...fantazie en het groote hart van den verteller van Tanglewood voorspelt 2). — Whitman zegt : „I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained." En hij ziet zichzelf schreeuwende en met langzamen vleugelslag als een van een schaar van duizenden... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - English poetry - 1920 - 202 pages
...the snare: Little one! Oh, little one ! I am searching everywhere! JAMES STEPHENS. ANIMALS I THINK I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - English poetry - 1921 - 192 pages
...The Macmillan Co. I THINK I could turn and live with animals, they so placid and self -contain 'd; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition j They do not lie awake in. the dark and weep for the sins; They do not make me sick discussing their... | |
 | Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes - French literature - 1921 - 338 pages
...at our set ideas of morality. But it must be admitted that she is superior to the American. "I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and selfcontained." Doubtless, but if we substitute for animals the fatalistic Orientals with their land of wondrous dreams,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 pages
...far north to Labrador, I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the clifr 32 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
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I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins... 
