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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY
Work title : Transpositions

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Respondez!

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

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

Respondez!

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

Let the priest 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!

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 (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 (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 (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!

Cluster: Marches Now the War Is Over. (1871)

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

head; No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames, and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

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

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

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

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

These are not to be cherished for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play

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

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

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

Chants Democratic and Native American 5

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

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

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