...tenoued and mortised in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains...of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is ns great to be a wo'man as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men....

...spirit to vindicate itself or to be understood, I see that the elementary laws never apologize. — I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,...me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I craft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue." "Song of Myself" IM ersten...

...belief about the nature of democracy, and his ' < ultimate spiritual creed. " I am the poet of the 1xxly and I am the poet of the soul, The pleasures of heaven...first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I iransl.ite into a new tongue." " Song of Myself," from Leaves t>f Grass. " Well, At looks like a MAN...

...material, the body, which he called hell. And Whitman announces a similar purpose in Song of Myself : " The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains...me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the ktter I translate into a new tongue." Make, it is true, was not quite sane — how could he be ? A...

...and turn it to ideal uses, draw out the spiritual meanings, then avaunt! we want nothing of him. " The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell. The former I graft and increase upon m\rself, The latter I translate into a new tongue." The vital...

...and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, / And I know the amplitude of time. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,...heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, t The f1rst I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate // into a new tongue. I j1m the...

...and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,...myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue. And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the...

...mortis' d in granite; I laugh at what you call dissolution ; And I know the amplitude of time. 21 I am the poet of the Body ; And I am the poet of the Soul. The pleasures of heaven are with me, and th? pains of hell are with me ; The first I graft and increase upon myself — the latter I translate...

...mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. 21 i I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,)...tongue. •, I am the poet of the woman the same as the And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the...

...hurry back in the darkness." And in the chant " Walt Whitman " : " I am the poet of the Body ; And I am poet of the Soul." " The pleasures of heaven are with...myself — the latter I translate into a new tongue." But five years later comes a contrasting strain : " As I wend to the shores I know not, As I list to...