by Whitman · Cluster: Stars · Night · Military Camp
Abstract
A four-line free-verse lyric of the soul’s nocturnal flight toward night, sleep, death and the stars; themes of the soul, night and death.
Connections
Motifs: Night, Death, Stars, Sleep Themes & Concepts: Self-Knowledge
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and the stars.