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...d appear at the coffee-house; when low in funds, the deuce knows into what mystic caves and dens he slunk for food and lodging. He was perfectly ready... ...ron nine times, besides extracts from the Latin syntax and the minor Greek poets. Catherine’s pas- sionate embreathings are of the most fashionable or... ...n we have all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for ...

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..., of grand and mysterious poems; and the ingenious stories invented by the poets, which my mother told me in the evening, had none of the flavor, none... ...ouse, and they dis- cussed me there. I became a sort of Western prophet, a mystic charmer who was ready to nihilize the Latin races, the Saint Paul of...

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course of his l...

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...trice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Ma...

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...er to the Anthropophagous bo som, arose there mysteriously under Clothes; a mystic grove encircled shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us indivi... ... to him: nay perhaps he has an insight into their more recondite, and almost mystic qualities, what we might call the omnipotent virtue of Clothes, su... ... in our fellow man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the high Platonic Mysticism of our Au thor, which is perhaps the fundamental element of hi... ...ery clouds soon roll together again, and hide it from view. Such tendency to Mysticism is everywhere traceable in this man; and indeed, to attentive r... ...Eyes look through him, then he may be useful. “Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou calle... ...ewest can find the kernel.” In such rose colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical details of whi... ...iritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed externa... ... here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Metaphorical Tailors? Touching...

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... GENIUS AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much a... ...e class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,” cried the zealous Whigs, “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The an... ...Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most cul- tiv... ...llins, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and many other poets. His native faculty, indeed, seems rather fine than powerful—rather t... ...less wealth, the native inheritance of his own genius. The highest rank of poets descend on their sublime sub- jects, like Uriel, descending alongst h... ... Tibbald, 280 or Ozell. 281 The goddess then o’er his anointed head, With mystic words, the sacred opium shed. And, lo! her bird (a monster of a fowl... ...traordinary man. His ‘Serious Call’ made Dr Johnson reli- gious. He became mystical in his views. 345 ‘Morgan:’ a writer against religion. 346 ‘Mand...

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...of, something has to be found to repre- sent it. According to Froebel, the mystic symbolic value of certain objects and acts (largely mathematical) st... ...having 76 Democracy & Education to be content with vague and more or less mystic gener- alities about ultimate ideals and speculative spiritual sym- ... ...n- talities of an expanding and controlled experience, and the artists and poets who have celebrated his struggles, triumphs, and defeats in such lang...

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...t the same as heaven. That is not imagination. No, it kills it. When their poets over here try to celebrate big- ness they are dead at once, and natur... ... general assertion of the won- der of the world. “My conviction,” says the mystic, “gains infinitely the moment another soul will be- lieve in it,” an... ...d—it is always that sloppy ‘somehow’ will be the outcome, and that in some mystical way the Mr. Basts of the future will benefit because the Mr. Brits... ...ible. The business man who assumes that this life is ev- erything, and the mystic who asserts that it is noth- ing, fail, on this side and on that, to... ...e great poet who shall voice her, or, better still for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk. At the church the scene...

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...x, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!’ The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical ar- ticle, is not to be conceived. The first defi... ...airest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the ... ...er in the evolving of the vague idea of the philo- sophic, and find in the mystic parable that tells of the tree of knowledge, and of its forbidden fr... ... not meet for man in the in- fant condition of his soul. And these men—the poets—living and perishing amid the scorn of the “utilitarians” —of rough p... ... which could have been properly applied only to the scorned—these men, the poets, pondered piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our ...