 | Leaves of grass (1872) |  |
Earth! My Likeness!
Earth! my likeness!Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
I now suspect that is not all;
I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth;
For an athlete is enamour'd of me—and I of him;
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |