 I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with...  Evolution and Human Values - Page 117edited by - 1995 - 251 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1910 - 156 pages
...live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition...lived thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable and industrious over the whole earth." And in the great Preface to the first edition of " Leaves of... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, American - 1910 - 156 pages
...live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition...make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied—not one is demented with the mania of owning things ; Not one kneels to another, nor... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, American - 1910 - 156 pages
...live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition...and weep for their sins ; They do not make me sick dicussing their duty to God ; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning... | |
 | Loren Benjamin Macdonald - Pragmatism - 1911 - 244 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." Somewhere, again, in the ascending process of life on earth the simple... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - American essays - 1911 - 440 pages
...primeval things." In one of his verses Whitman wrote that ho prefers animals to men because, he says, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, and do not make him sick discussing their duty to God. For such reasons he felt like going to live... | |
 | Belle Beach - Driving of horse-drawn vehicles - 1912 - 326 pages
...and live with animals, They are so placid and self.contained; I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago." — Walt Whitman. CHAPTER I FORM IN RIDING \\ 7TTH all the changes in fashion and fads, rid* * ing... | |
 | Benjamin Dumville - Educational psychology - 1912 - 420 pages
...man to his many investigations and researches. So with all the brutes. As Walt Whitman says : — " They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...not one is demented With the mania of owning things ; " Their wants are few, and easily satisfied. Consequently they make little, if any, progress from... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 702 pages
...live with animals, they are so placid and selfcontain'd; , 40 I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...not one is demented with the mania of owning things, 45 Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...expressed in prose. I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contain'd, They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they show their relation to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 176 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. The Whitman scholar Betsy Erkkila says Walt "was one of the first major... | |
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