Literature of the world : an introductory study . imitless golden cloud, filling the western sky. Some of the best Civil War poems that our literature boasts are in-cluded in Leaves of Grass—such intense and graphic and richlypoetic pieces as Eighteen Sixty-One, Come Up from the Fields,Father, A March in the Ranks Hard Prest, The Wound-Dresser, and the solemnly tender Reconciliation, so brief andsimple, and yet so deeply satisfying : Word over all. beautiful as the sky,Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,That the hands of the sisters Death and Night inc
Literature of the world : an introductory study . imitless golden cloud, filling the western sky. Some of the best Civil War poems that our literature boasts are in-cluded in Leaves of Grass—such intense and graphic and richlypoetic pieces as Eighteen Sixty-One, Come Up from the Fields,Father, A March in the Ranks Hard Prest, The Wound-Dresser, and the solemnly tender Reconciliation, so brief andsimple, and yet so deeply satisfying : Word over all. beautiful as the sky,Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soild world ;For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead;I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw near,Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the cofl&n. O Captain, my Captain, on the theme of the death of Lincoln, isthe most popular of Whitmans poems. As poetry, however, it isinferior to When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd, which, in. WALT WHITMAN 500 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD depth and ^rcatness of feeling and in simple poetic power, is thefinest tribute to Lincoln in our literature. The closing lines are asfollows: Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. The individual note in Whitman is constantly expressed in terms ofuniversal friendship, comradeship, and good will. He says: I dreamd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth ;I dreamd that was the City of Friends ;Nothing was greater there than the quahty of robust love—it led the rest;It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,And in all their looks and words. Whitmans splendid and unabashed confidence
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