Famous Quotes | (O I see what I sought to...
(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
I see my own soul trampling down what it ask’d for.)
Keep your splendid silent sun,
Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,
Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and
orchards,
Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth-month bees hum;
Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms
incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
- Walt Whitman
Attribution: Walt Whitman (1819–1892), U.S. poet. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (l. 18–24). . . The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.
Categories: Humanity, Nature, Sun
