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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY
Work title : Song Of Myself

51 results

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In his philosophy justice attains its proper dimensions: "I play not a march for victors only: I play

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 18 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

for his picture would answer equally well for a "Bowery boy," one of the "killers," "Mose" in the play

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 22 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

Annotations Text:

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Annotations Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

Annotations Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

Annotations Text:

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

may be gathered from one or two passage selected as illustrative of different phases of mind:— "I play

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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

muscular build, his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play Marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Whitman for the Drawing Room

  • Date: April 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

This quotation is from a collection of conversations between Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann.

Annotations Text:

Grundy, a term for an extremely conventional or priggish person, refers to a character in the play Speed

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Jourdain, in the play of Racine, was surprised to learn from his erudite master in philosophy that for

The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .

Annotations Text:

.; The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

Buchanan, who have praised his performances, appear to me to be playing off on the public a well-intentioned

, arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result—or else that class of poetry, plays

Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1867
  • Creator(s): Buchanan, Robert
Text:

All, he says, is sweet—smell, taste, thought, the play of his limbs, the fantasies of his mind; every

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): D. W.
Text:

What play of Shakespeare represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

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

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

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

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

fight between Deity on one side and somebody else on the other—not Milton, not even Shakespeare's plays

Walt Whitman's Complete Volume

  • Date: 12 August 1882
  • Creator(s): Gordon, T. Francis
Text:

Love's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Love's like a melodie That's sweetly played

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Hale, Edward Everett
Text:

cuts, First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's-eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or to play

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

animal—and left people to infer that he was some such inspired brute as Jove infurried (sic) , when he played

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

Of course we do not select those which are the most transcendental or the most bold:— "I play not a march

for victors only…I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Work of some sort Play?

weapons or helmets—all emblematic of peace—shadowy—rapidly approaches and pauses sweeping by— if in a play—let

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Great latitude must be allowed to others Bring Play your muscle, and it will be lithe as willow and gutta

Whitman and His Poems," first published in the United States Review : "Every move of him has the free play

Poem incarnating the mind

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

isolated, perfect and sound, is isolated all all things and all other beings as an audience at the play-house

fire. / From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, / The lithe sheer of their waists plays

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

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

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast" (p. 71).

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

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, "I Celebrate Myself,"

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

eddies of the wind, A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms, The play

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

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

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

lights, The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars; The slow-march played

Walt Whitman

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind; A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms; The play

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

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements; The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come—with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only—I play great marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

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!

Walt Whitman.

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind; A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms; The play

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

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements; The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

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

Song of Myself.

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

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!

Walt Whitman

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

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those winged purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

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

colored lights, The steam-whistle—the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow-march played

Song of Myself.

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

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!

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

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

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

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

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

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

colored lights, The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow-march played

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!

An English and an American Poet

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

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Walt Whitman and His Poems

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

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or play

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