ANOUD

Non so ancora se è "buono", per ora posso solo dire che è giorno... poi vi faccio sapere.

Illustrations by Margaret C. Cook (English, active 1894-1936), for the 1913 edition of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'.

Above-below:

1. 'Two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we'.

2. 'The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed/They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from East to West'.

3. 'The tender and growing night.'

4. 'How calm, how solemn it grows to ascend the atmosphere of lovers.'

5. 'Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death.'

6. 'The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.'

7. 'They are calm, clear, well possess’d of themselves.'

8. 'I see my soul reflected in Nature/As I see through a mist/One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty/See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.'