Notes And Fragments

it burns volcanic ; The earth recedes ashamed before my prophetical crisis.*2Osirus-to give forms.I am he who finds nothing more divine than simple and natural things are divine.3Remembrances I plant American ground with, Lessons to think I scatter as they come. I perceive that myriads of men and women never think, I perceive that e'er visible effects can come, thought must come, I perceive that sages, poets, inventors, benefactors, lawgivers, are only those who haTable of Contents CONTENTS; EDITOR'S PREFACE,; PART I; First Drafts and Rejected Lines and Passages, Mostly very Fragmentary, from "Leaves of Grass," Largely Antecedent to the 1855 Edition,; PART II; Notes on the Meaning and Intention of " Leaves of Grass," - - 55; PART III; Memoranda from Books and from His Own Reflections, Indicating the Poet's Reading and Thought Preparatory to Writing '' Leaves of Grass," - - - - - 75; PART IV; Shorter Notes, Isolated Words, Brief Sentences, Memoranda, Suggestive; Expressions, Names and Dates, - - - 151; PART V; Notes on English History, - - - - - 181; PART VI; A List of Certain Magazines and Newspaper Articles Studied and Preserved by Walt Whitman and Found Among His Papers, 193About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publis