{"product_id":"2940014463393","title":"Leaves of Grass","description":"BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS\u003cbr\u003eONE’S-SELF I SING\u003cbr\u003eOne’s-self I sing, a simple separate person,\u003cbr\u003eYet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.\u003cbr\u003eOf physiology from top to toe I sing,\u003cbr\u003eNot physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say\u003cbr\u003ethe Form complete is worthier far,\u003cbr\u003eThe Female equally with the Male I sing.\u003cbr\u003eOf Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,\u003cbr\u003eCheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,\u003cbr\u003eThe Modern Man I sing.\u003cbr\u003e15\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman\u003cbr\u003eAS I PONDER’D IN SILENCE\u003cbr\u003eAs I ponder’d in silence,\u003cbr\u003eReturning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,\u003cbr\u003eA Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect,\u003cbr\u003eTerrible in beauty, age, and power,\u003cbr\u003eThe genius of poets of old lands,\u003cbr\u003eAs to me directing like flame its eyes,\u003cbr\u003eWith finger pointing to many immortal songs,\u003cbr\u003eAnd menacing voice, What singest thou? it said,\u003cbr\u003eKnow’st thou not there is hut one theme for ever-enduring bards?\u003cbr\u003eAnd that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,\u003cbr\u003eThe making of perfect soldiers.\u003cbr\u003eBe it so, then I answer’d,\u003cbr\u003eI too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,\u003cbr\u003eWaged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and\u003cbr\u003eretreat, victory deferr’d and wavering,\u003cbr\u003e(Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the field the world,\u003cbr\u003eFor life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,\u003cbr\u003eLo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles,\u003cbr\u003eI above all promote brave soldiers.\u003cbr\u003e16\u003cbr\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003cbr\u003eIN CABIN’D SHIPS AT SEA\u003cbr\u003eIn cabin’d ships at sea,\u003cbr\u003eThe boundless blue on every side expanding,\u003cbr\u003eWith whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves,\u003cbr\u003eOr some lone bark buoy’d on the dense marine,\u003cbr\u003eWhere joyous full of faith, spreading white sails,\u003cbr\u003eShe cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under\u003cbr\u003emany a star at night,\u003cbr\u003eBy sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,\u003cbr\u003eIn full rapport at last.\u003cbr\u003eHere are our thoughts, voyagers’ thoughts,\u003cbr\u003eHere not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,\u003cbr\u003eThe sky o’erarches here, we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,\u003cbr\u003eWe feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion,\u003cbr\u003eThe tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the\u003cbr\u003ebriny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,\u003cbr\u003eThe perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm,\u003cbr\u003eThe boundless vista and the horizon far and dim are all here,\u003cbr\u003eAnd this is ocean’s poem.\u003cbr\u003eThen falter not O book, fulfil your destiny,\u003cbr\u003eYou not a reminiscence of the land alone,\u003cbr\u003eYou too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos’d I know not whither,\u003cbr\u003eyet ever full of faith,\u003cbr\u003eConsort to every ship that sails, sail you!\u003cbr\u003eBear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here\u003cbr\u003ein every leaf;)\u003cbr\u003eSpeed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the\u003cbr\u003eimperious waves,\u003cbr\u003eChant on, sail on, bear o’er the boundless blue from me to every sea,\u003cbr\u003eThis song for mariners and all their ships.\u003cbr\u003e17\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman\u003cbr\u003eTO FOREIGN LANDS\u003cbr\u003eI heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World,\u003cbr\u003eAnd to define America, her athletic Democracy,\u003cbr\u003eTherefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you\u003cbr\u003ewanted.\u003cbr\u003e18\u003cbr\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003cbr\u003eTO A HISTORIAN\u003cbr\u003eYou who celebrate bygones,\u003cbr\u003eWho have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that\u003cbr\u003ehas exhibited itself,\u003cbr\u003eWho have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers\u003cbr\u003eand priests,\u003cbr\u003eI, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his\u003cbr\u003eown rights,\u003cbr\u003ePressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great\u003cbr\u003epride of man in himself,)\u003cbr\u003eChanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,\u003cbr\u003eI project the history of the future.\u003cbr\u003e19\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman\u003cbr\u003eTO THEE OLD CAUSE\u003cbr\u003eTo thee old cause!\u003cbr\u003eThou peerless, passionate, good cause,\u003cbr\u003eThou stern, remorseless, sweet idea,\u003cbr\u003eDeathless throughout the ages, races, lands,\u003cbr\u003eAfter a strange sad war, great war for thee,\u003cbr\u003e(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really\u003cbr\u003efought, for thee,)\u003cbr\u003eThese chants for thee, the eternal march of thee.\u003cbr\u003e(A war O soldiers not for itself alone,\u003cbr\u003eFar, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book.)\u003cbr\u003eThou orb of many orbs!\u003cbr\u003eThou seething principle! thou well-kept, latent germ! thou centre!\u003cbr\u003eAround the idea of thee the war revolving,\u003cbr\u003eWith all its angry and vehement play of causes,\u003cbr\u003e(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)\u003cbr\u003eThese recitatives for thee,—my book and the war are one,\u003cbr\u003eMerged in its spirit I and mine, as th","brand":"All classic book warehouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069368156400,"sku":"2940014463393","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014463393_p0.jpg?v=1763609038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014463393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}