 | 1875 - 80 pages
...familiar friend ; the shebear her nurse and mother. She could have said with Whitman, — " I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and selfcontain'd ; They do not sweat and whine about their condition ; They do not lie awake in the dark... | |
 | Great Britain - 1876 - 1022 pages
...with our poet. " I think I coul.l turn anil live with animals, they are so placid and solf-contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not...They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sin3 ; They do not make mo sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...affectation, incredible as anything else. But the brutes are rather a favourite theme with our poet. I think I could turn and live with animals* they are so placid...them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about tl.eir condition ; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins ; They do not make me... | |
 | Thomas Stephenson Francis Battersby - 1879 - 144 pages
...Dweller in Mannahatta, his city, he is " a lover of populous pavements" ; at the same time he thinks " he could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained"; and he " could come every afternoon of his life to look at the farmer's girl, boiling her iron tea-kettle... | |
 | Education - 1928 - 694 pages
...modern." He envied the placidity of animals, their indifference to the tumult of life about them: "I think I could turn 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.... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - English fiction - 1883 - 312 pages
...you that the naivete is due to a cunning and bold contradiction of every fact in the case. " I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd : . I stand and look at them long and long. Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented... | |
 | Criticism - 1884 - 928 pages
...phase of modern vagaries. " Listen to Walt Whitman's reverie, as he looks at some cattle: • I think I could turn and live with Animals, they are so placid and self contained I stand and look at them long and long ; Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1887 - 268 pages
...miracle." " A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." " I think I could turn 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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 pages
...miracle." " A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." " I think I could turn 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,... | |
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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... 
