Fire Whitman

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:

“Oh! joyous hearts! enfired with holy flame!
Is speech thus tasseled with praise?
Will not your inward fire of joy contain:
That it in open flames doth blaze?
For in Christ’s coach saints sweetly sing,
As they to glory ride therein.”
—Edward Taylor (1645–1729)

“Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)