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Ah, little recks the laborer,
How near his work is holding him to God,
The loving Laborer through space and time.
Long and long has the grass been growing,
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round.
I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand — nor am I now…
I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am encloser of things to be.
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles.
Miracles (1856)
Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.
Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later, delicate death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Thou! thou! the vital, universal, giant force resistless, sleepless, calm,
Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,
How will to e'er forget thee!
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
When I give I give myself.
And over all the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach,
studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
O, I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as day cannot,
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
Lo! the moon ascending!
Up from the East, the silvery round moon;
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;
Immense and silent moon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Now obey thy cherished secret wish,
Embrace thy friends—leave all in order;
To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)