“storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
I tread day and night such roads.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
“Will the day tell its secret before it disappears, becomes timeless night.”
“Suns and the Night,” p. 45
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Grain”
Source: Soul Curry for You and Me: An Empowering Philosophy that Can Enrich Your Life, P. 31.
The Desolate City, from Collected Poems (1914)
“Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 72–73.
Stanza 7
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Context: Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
