{"id":150422,"date":"2020-02-03T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=150422"},"modified":"2020-01-05T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:02:48","slug":"from-song-of-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/from-song-of-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u201cSong of Myself\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,<br \/>\nAnd the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg<br \/>\nof the wren,<br \/>\nAnd the tree-toad is a chef-d\u2019oeuvre for the highest,<br \/>\nAnd the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,<br \/>\nAnd the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,<br \/>\nAnd the cow crunching with depress\u2019d head surpasses any statue,<br \/>\nAnd a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.<\/p>\n<p>I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits,<br \/>\ngrains, esculent roots,<br \/>\nAnd am stucco\u2019d with quadrupeds and birds all over,<br \/>\nAnd have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,<br \/>\nBut call any thing back again when I desire it.<\/p>\n<p>In vain the speeding or shyness,<br \/>\nIn vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,<br \/>\nIn vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder\u2019d bones,<br \/>\nIn vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,<br \/>\nIn vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,<br \/>\nIn vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,<br \/>\nIn vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,<br \/>\nIn vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,<br \/>\nIn vain the razor-bill\u2019d auk sails far north to Labrador,<br \/>\nI follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Walt-Whitman-photograph-Mathew-Brady.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-150424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Walt-Whitman-photograph-Mathew-Brady-774x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Walt-Whitman-photograph-Mathew-Brady-774x1024.jpg 774w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Walt-Whitman-photograph-Mathew-Brady-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Walt-Whitman-photograph-Mathew-Brady-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Walt-Whitman-photograph-Mathew-Brady-1161x1536.jpg 1161w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Walt-Whitman-photograph-Mathew-Brady.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Whitman\" >Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,<br \/>\nAnd the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg<br \/>\nof the wren,<br \/>\nAnd the tree-toad is a chef-d\u2019oeuvre for the highest,<br \/>\nAnd the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":150424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868,1101],"class_list":["post-150422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry","tag-walt-whitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}