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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY
Work title : Faces

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The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

To play at pastoral may be for a while the fashion, if the shepherds and shepherdesses are permitted

stand open and ready; The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon; The clear light plays

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
Text:

more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flame flames , and the lambent lightnings playing

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the poem later titled "I Sing the Body Electric": "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

—the vocal performer to make far more of his song, or solo part, by by-play, attitudes, expressions,

edition of The bugle calls in the ballroom—the dancers gentlemen lead out go for their partners—the playing

The fingers of the pianist playing lightly and rapidly over the keys. illustration a man placing his

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the crash of artillery!

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

I love to look on the stars and stripes—I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

- ing playing within me.

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I play not here marches for victors only—I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Let priests still play at immortality! Let Death be inaugurated!

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the artillery!

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Let priests still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

- ing playing within me.

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

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