A mere whit of a man
Oct. 13th, 2007 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonI took the opportunity this morning to reread Walt Whitman's brilliant, wild, undisciplined and rambling Leaves of Grass (from which comes the famous quote, "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable; / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.")
And I found a few gems I had forgotten, bits of truth and beauty poured from the soul of Walt, that spoke to me especially this beautiful cool sunny Fall morning, after nearly a week of rain which has filled the streams to raucous unruly turbulence. Here's one:
"Smile, O voluptuous, cool-breath’d earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees;
Earth of departed sunset! earth of the mountains, misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon, just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds, brighter and clearer for my sake!
Far-swooping elbow’d earth! rich, apple-blossom’d earth!
Smile, for your lover comes!"
And I found a few gems I had forgotten, bits of truth and beauty poured from the soul of Walt, that spoke to me especially this beautiful cool sunny Fall morning, after nearly a week of rain which has filled the streams to raucous unruly turbulence. Here's one:
"Smile, O voluptuous, cool-breath’d earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees;
Earth of departed sunset! earth of the mountains, misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon, just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds, brighter and clearer for my sake!
Far-swooping elbow’d earth! rich, apple-blossom’d earth!
Smile, for your lover comes!"
