 | 1855
...Walt Whitman at first proceeds to put his own body and soul into the new versification: "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you." He leaves houses and their shuttered rooms, for the open air. He drops disguise and ceremony, and walks... | |
 | 1856
...his title page, figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe, and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such... | |
 | 1919
...own personal environment; (2) the ego that sees with himself innumerable counterpart identities, " I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume...For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to yon ;" and (3) in all personality the egotism which is a part of God, the transcendental ego, where... | |
 | 1881
...sang the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. " I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease • • • observing a spear of summer grass,"... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 1883 - 236 strani
...explains it. The poem is nominally upon himself, but really includes everybody. It begins : ' I celebrate myself. And what I assume, you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.1 In a word, Walt Whitman represents the kosmical man — he is the ADAMUS of\ the Nineteenth century... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 52 strani
...various passages. But the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus : — 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 and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 52 strani
...various passages. But the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus :— 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 and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 556 strani
...the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines: — " I celebrate myself ; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass,"... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 strani
...clause is really too fetchingly poetic. One sample more : — I celebrate myself. And what I shall assume You shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me. as good belongs to you. Oh, to level occupations and the sexes ! (), to bring all t<> common ground ! O, adhesiveness ! (),... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887
...this celebration of himself is not exclusive, as of a unit merely, but one embracing the race — " I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,... | |
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I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. 
