“Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away…” -from Section 28, Song of Myself FOR YOUR EMAIL AWAY MESSAGE Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,ĭeluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields, Straining the udder of my hear for its withheld drip,īehaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,ĭepriving me of my best as for a purpose, On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs, My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself, Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them, “Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,įlames and ether making a rush for my veins, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn’d over upon me,Īnd parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,Īnd reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.” -from Section 5, Song of Myself “I mind how we once lay such a transparent summer morning, “falter not O book, fulfil your destiny” -from “In Cabin’d Ships at Sea,” Inscriptions TO SET THE MOOD You must travel it for yourself.” -from Section 46, Song of Myself “Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, I find letters from God dropt in the street.” -from Section 48, Song of Myself WHEN SENDING YOUR CHILD OFF TO COLLEGE In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, “I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” -from Section 31, Song of Myself “In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique?” -from Section 4, Starting from Paumanok RELIGIOUS/MORAL PRINCIPLESĪnd whatever is done or said returns at last to me.” -from Section 24, Song of Myself “I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,Īnd behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces.” -from Section 6, Starting from Paumanok AN EXCUSE FOR WHEN YOU JUST NEED TO SHOP Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.” -from “To the States,” Inscriptions Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, “To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther.” -from “Beginning My Studies,” Inscriptions TO PUMP UP THE CROWD FOR A PROTEST “The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much, IN RESPONSE TO THE VERY RUDE QUESTION OF HOW MUCH YOU EXERCISED THIS WEEK
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