Skip to main content
Like
Create new Glog
previous
next
Email share
24 views | 0 likes | 0 reposts
TO THE garden, the world, anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious, here behold my resurrection, after slumber; The revolving cycles, in their wide sweep, have brought me again, Amorous, mature--all beautiful to me--all wondrous; My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, forreasons, most wondrous; Existing, I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present--content with the past, By my side, or back of me, Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.
In saying, 'The revolving cycles,' Whitman means that life a cycle, and from life comes death, and vice versa.
Whitman also makes a Biblical allusion to Eve when he says 'By my side, or back of me, Eve followed.'
