“ what is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. ”
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1855). copy citation
| Author | Walt Whitman |
|---|---|
| Source | Song of Myself |
| Topic | reading eyes expression |
| Date | 1855 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | in "Leaves of Grass" |
| Note | |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass/Book_III |
Context
“I go with the team also. In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing, To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing, Absorbing all to myself and for this song. Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble, They rise together, they slowly circle around. I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me,”
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