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Grand is the Seen

Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Transcendentalist poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry,  poetry by Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic : Transcendentalist
19th Century

Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars,
Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,
And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;
But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,
Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,
(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?)
More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul!
More multiform far -- more lasting thou than they.

 

 

-- from The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee

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Themes

  Light
  Sky
  Water
 
 


Recommended Books


Dead Poets Society (DVD), by
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee
Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

 

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