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with a secret wish that I had not begun to read and a vow that I would never do the like again), by my
Lowell voices in the best way it can be voiced this limitation, or to my mind wrong poetic notion, in
"Behind the hill, behind the sky, Behind my inmost thought, he sings; No feet avail; to hear it nigh,
—you say in "New York;" but I had my hearing of most of those you mention elsewhere.
Sidney Morse . ∗ "Good-Bye, my Fancy!" Walt Whitman. 1891. The Second Annex to "Leaves of Grass"
grave illness, I gather up the pieces of prose and poetry left over since publishing a while since my
For some reason—not explainable or definite to my own mind, yet secretly pleasing and satisfactory to
And thee, My Soul! Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations!
Thee for my recitative!
Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music!
The only American prophet to my knowledge who enjoys a fame in England not accorded him in his own country
, strolling tides, Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey; And he sends it out 'partly as my
And thee, My Soul! Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations!
Thee for my recitative!
Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music!
One of his own countrymen (a press correspondent) thus writes of him— The only American prophet to my
He has no respect for artificial barriers to poetic inspiration:— "In my opinion the time has arrived
In my opinion, I say, while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification
"Yes, my brethren, oh!
And thee, My Soul! Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations!