 With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you...  Poems - Page 302by Walt Whitman - 1868 - 403 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...— for well, dear brother, I know, If thou wast not gifted to sing, thou wouldst surely die. 5Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities, Amid...bring : For fresh as the morning — thus would I carol a song for you, O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death ! I cover you over... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...— for well, dear brother, I know, If thou wast not gifted to sing, thou wouldst surely die. . 5Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities, Amid...bring : For fresh as the morning — thus would I carol a song for you, O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death ! I cover you over... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green...as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early... | |
 | Roden Noel - English poetry - 1886 - 394 pages
...and goes." And why ? Surely any one may say it. In Mr. Lincoln's Funeral Hymn, Whitman sings : — " Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,...the morning — thus would I chant a song for you, O SANE AND SACRED DEATH." I suppose what will shock the majority most is Whitman's admitting evil and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. 7 (Nor for you, for one alone, — Blossoms and branches...as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you, O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early... | |
 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. 7 (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green...as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Composers - 1897 - 474 pages
...tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green...as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you Qv sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American literature - 1898 - 320 pages
...tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. 7 (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green...as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1898 - 322 pages
...tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. 7 (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green...as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early... | |
 | 1899 - 100 pages
...tolling bell's perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. 7 (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green...as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early... | |
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