4/8/2023 0 Comments Walt whitman sail forth![]() ![]() To glide with thee, O Soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters! O for another world! O if one could but fly like a bird! KNAU listener Stuart Howe ventured into the wilderness to read for this week's Poetry Friday segmentĬome! let us lag here no longer-let us be up and away! Put in April and May-the hylas croaking in the ponds-the elastic air,īees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes,īlue-bird, and darting swallow-nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden Gather the welcome signs (as children, with pebbles, or stringing shells) Souvenirs of earliest summer-birds' eggs, and the first berries Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake, I read several poems in the collection and decided on this one because it has a real good theme for the recurrence of summer that we’re finally getting to experience here in Flagstaff, and it’s time to go out and play. Today, I’m going to be reading Warble for Lilac-Time from Walt Whitman’s 1900 book Leaves of Grass. I think we kind of lose that sometimes in city and day-to-day life, and it’s important to have that balance. It’s an escape and a reset back to what I think is most important in our humanity and our connection with nature. SH: I see a still pond in front of us with lush, green grasses. In this week's Poetry Friday segment, KNAU listener Stuart Howe ventures out to a peaceful canyon south of Flagstaff to read from Whitman's most famous collection of poems, Leaves of Grass. He was known for writing from a transcendentalist perspective, believing that human reality could be understood by studying nature. ![]() 2019 marks two-hundred years since the birth of beloved American poet, Walt Whitman. ![]()
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