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
| Government publications - 2002 - 52 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....thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." Experts today praise Leaves of Grass as a major literary work. In his... | |
| Gregory Orr - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 250 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. ("Song of Myself," section 32) Whitman wishes to speak affirmatively... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 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. For instance, "If men were as much men as lizards are lizards, / They'd... | |
| Robert Finch, John Elder - Fiction - 2002 - 1160 pages
...susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it. reat waves on the rocks, and lash themselves into a mad, white foam. We can laud . . . All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But... | |
| Dietmar Busse, Tom Breidenbach - Nature - 2003 - 81 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,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Having finished school, Dietmar moved to Berlin, and traveled extensively... | |
| Marvin Rafal - Career Changes - 2003 - 286 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;...thousands of years ago; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. Finding a job that is a good fit requires analysis, activity, and... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 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. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens... | |
| Jonathan Rayner - Social Science - 2003 - 306 pages
...myself (1.1) I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain 'd, . . . They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their...nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, . . . (11.684-690)6 Such lines might stir rebellious dissatisfaction in the minds of impressionable... | |
| Bill Moore, David Booth - Children's poetry - 2003 - 154 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,...Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago... | |
| Various - Fiction - 2002 - 676 pages
...susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. . . . All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But... | |
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