 | Art - 1856 - 602 pages
...poet, unnamed on his title page, figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe, and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such... | |
 | Literature - 1881 - 1008 pages
...life, and sang the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume,...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. " I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease • • • observing a spear of summer grass,"... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...(2) the ego that sees with himself innumerable counterpart identities, " I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to yon ;" and (3) in all personality the egotism which is a part of God, the transcendental ego, where... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - Authors' presentation copies - 1883 - 270 pages
...itself explains it. The poem is nominally upon himself, but really includes everybody. It begins : ' I celebrate myself. And what I assume, you shall assume...For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.1 In a word, Walt Whitman represents the kosmical man — he is the ADAMUS of\ the Nineteenth century... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...topic with the parodists, here is a small extract from his SONG OF MYSELF. I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue,... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 pages
...has excised various passages. But the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus : — I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 pages
...has excised various passages. But the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus :— I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul; I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1885 - 592 pages
...life, and sang the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines: — "I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume;...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. " I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass,"... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 pages
...clause is really too fetchingly poetic. One sample more : — I celebrate myself. And what I shall assume You shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me. as good belongs to you. Oh, to level occupations and the sexes ! (), to bring all t<> common ground ! O, adhesiveness ! (),... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 pages
...is not exclusive, as of a unit merely, but one embracing the race — " I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,... | |
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I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. 
