...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...at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such is the starting point of this most eccentric and republican of poets ; of whom the republican...

...me. SONG OF MYSELF. II CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, \ I And what I assume you shall assume, j V For. every atom belonging to me as good belongs to...loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here...

...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...loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here...

...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...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass — and concludes thus : — The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me — he complains of my gab and...

...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...loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass— and concludes thus :— The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering....

...thought was small enough; critical authorities were few, and of little weight. " Putnam's Monthly" certainly had influence, and was the periodical to...even to rebuke of their own failure to go farther, brought them, perchance, like Frankenstein, to regard with little complacence the strides of their...

...story of the oldfashioned frigate and the little captain who won by Broohlyn^ N. }'., 1855. 354 355 the light of the moon and stars, — the proud humility,...even to rebuke of their own failure to go farther, brought them, perchance, like Frankenstein, to regard with little complacence the strides of their...

...crowd, — the ringing story of the oldfashioned frigate and the little captain who won bj OF GRASS: 355 the light of the moon and stars, — the proud humility,...even to rebuke of their own failure to go farther, brought them, perchance, like Frankenstein, to regard with little complacence the strides of their...

...frigate and the little captain who won by • '..*£./1.- i . . . ; - - /'; • ••./•-- - .. >: the light of the moon and stars, — the proud humility,...my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass," The transcendental nwvenunt. he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration,...

...semblance of idleness ; of all which the man himself might have given this valid justification : — "I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass." Nevertheless, these nine years of groping, blundering, and seeming idleness, were not without their...