...pride, We have had ducking and deprecating about enough, I show that size is only development. . . . ... I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,...to the earth and sea, half-held by the night. Press closer, bare-bosomed night ! press close, magnetic, nourishing night ! Night of the South winds ! night...

...emotion running all through the poems, which is now and then crested with such passages as this : — " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night; I call to the earth and sea, half held by the night. "Press close, bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night !...

...short cake." But, true to the principles I have laid down, he is enamoured of growing out-doors. " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and the sea, half held by the night. Press close, bare-bosomed night ! magnetic, nourishing night ! Night...

..."Walt Whitman"* again, one of the firstpublished poems, we have such a lyric outburst as this :— I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;...bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night! Night of south winds ! night of the large, few stars ! Still, nodding night! mad, naked summer...

..."Walt Whitman"* again, one of the firstpublished poems, we have such a lyric outburst as this : — I am he that walks with the tender and growing night...bare-bosom'd night ! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night ! Night of south winds ! night of the large, few stars ! Still, nodding night ! mad, naked summer...

...emotion running all through the poems, which is now and then crested with such passages as this : — " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night ; I call to the earth and sea, half held by the night. Press close, bare-bosomed night ! Press cloee, magnetic, nourishing night !...

...instance, to the penetrating sweetness, set in the midst of rugged grandeur, of the passage beginning— " I am he that walks with the tender and growing night; I call to the earth and sea half held by the night." I see that no counting of syllables will reveal the mechanism of the music;...

...overcome heroes! And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known ! — Ibid. NIGHT. I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,...bare-bosom'd night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds — night of the large few stars! Still nodding night — mad naked summer...

...overcome heroes! And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known! — Ibid. NIGHT. I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,...bare-bosom'd night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds — night of the large few stars! Still nodding night — mad naked summer...

...there is really no death, All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses. Song of Myself. Stanza 6. I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,...earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare bosom'd night — press close magnetic nourishing night ! Night of south winds — night of the...