by Whitman · Cluster: Self-Knowledge · Immortality · Self-Reliance
Abstract
His bare wintry songs may yet burst into future spring leaf and fruit, love and faith blooming like roses.
Connections
Topoi: Immortality Through Verse Motifs: Seasons, Spring, Leaves, Rose Themes & Concepts: Faith, Immortality of Art Fame Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SANDS AT SEVENTY
Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like
eagles’ talons,)
But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some
summer—bursting forth,
To verdant leaves, or sheltering shade—to nourishing fruit,
Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh,
free, open air,
And love and faith, like scented roses blooming.